scant是什么意思？

scant

英[skænt] 美[skænt]

• adj. 不足的，缺乏的，将近的，吝啬的；
• vt. 限制，节省，吝惜；

第三人称单数：scants;

过去式：scanted;

过去分词：scanted;

现在分词：scanting;

比较级：scanter;

最高级：scantest;

例句

• Many mothers pay scant attention to their own needs when their children are small. 孩子们小的时候, 许多母亲都忽视自己的需求。
• He paid scant attention to what was said. 他没怎么注意听讲。
• I paid scant attention to what she was saying. 我没大注意她在说什么。
• The atrophic glands have scant cytoplasm and hyperchromatic nuclei with occasional punctate nucleoli. 萎缩腺体内细胞的胞浆含量少,核浓染,偶尔可见斑点状核仁.
• As a healer of bodies I had scant success. 作为治疗肌体的医生,我的成就甚微.
• This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter. 这个洞眼的直径只有0.23英寸。
• In fact, Richard Savage had known Edward Bellamy a scant five hours. 实际上，理查德·萨维奇和爱德华·贝拉米相识才仅仅 5 个小时。
• This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter... 这个洞眼的直径只有 0.23 英寸。
• ...forces that have shown scant respect for Red Cross markings or UN flags... 对红十字会标志和联合国旗帜不屑一顾的军队
• She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car. 她开始痛斥警方对她车内被窃一案不够关注。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  一丁点的;微小的;不足的;欠缺的
  You use scant to indicate that there is very little of something or not as much of something as there should be.
  例句
  She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car. 她开始痛斥警方对她车内被窃一案不够关注。 ...forces that have shown scant respect for Red Cross markings or UN flags... 对红十字会标志和联合国旗帜不屑一顾的军队
• ADJ
  (强调数目)小的,很小的，仅有的
  If you describe an amount as scant, you are emphasizing that it is small.
  例句
  This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter... 这个洞眼的直径只有 0.23 英寸。 In fact, Richard Savage had known Edward Bellamy a scant five hours. 实际上，理查德·萨维奇和爱德华·贝拉米相识才仅仅 5 个小时。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  不足的; 缺乏的; 一丁点的; 微小的; 欠缺的
  He paid scant attention to what was said. 他没怎么注意听讲。 Many mothers pay scant attention to their own needs when their children are small. 孩子们小的时候, 许多母亲都忽视自己的需求。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
  2. limit in quality or quantity
  3. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;
  "sting with the allowance"
• Adjective
  1. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
  "a light pound""a scant cup of sugar""regularly gives short weight"

行业词典

• 计算机： 【修】缺乏，不足；