scanty

adj.

1. 不足的；欠缺的；太少的
   too little in amount for what is needed
   1. Details of his life are scanty.
      关于他的生平，详细资料不多。
2. 小而暴露身体的
   very small and not covering much of your body
   1. a scanty bikini
      遮不住多少身体的比基尼泳装

1. ADJ-GRADED 偏小的;偏少的;不足的;欠缺的
   You describe something as scanty when there is less of it than you think there should be.
   1. So far, what scanty evidence we have points to two suspects.
      迄今为止，我们掌握的能够指证两个嫌疑犯的证据少得可怜。
2. ADJ-GRADED (衣服)暴露的
   If someone is wearing scanty clothing, he or she is wearing clothes which are sexually revealing.
   1. ...a model in scanty clothing.
      衣着暴露的模特

1. So far, what scanty evidence we have points to two suspects.
   迄今为止，我们掌握的能够指证两个嫌疑犯的证据少得可怜。
2. I have only a scanty knowledge of world affairs.
   我对于国际事务只是一知半解。
3. Co-operatives can be organized even with scanty means of production, as has been proved by the many co-operatives organized by poor and lower-middle peasants.
   生产资料少一点也可以组织合作社，很多贫农和下中农组织的合作社已经证明了。
4. Scanty information about their pupils.
   关于他们学生的少得可怜的资料。
5. A bare livelihood; a scanty harvest; a spare diet.
   拮据的生活；不充足的收获；节俭的饮食。
6. The knowledge about higher plant mitochondrial ribosomes is scanty.
   关于高等植物线粒体核蛋白体的知识也少的可怜。
7. From scanty news published in their mountain newspapers, some few cadres thought the Russians could not hold out.
   从在山区发行的报纸所登载的点滴消息中，少数干部认为俄国人坚持不下去了。
8. His head was large and ugly; he had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin.
   他的脑袋大而丑，头发灰白稀疏，土色的皮肤。
9. Her feet were bare, but she wore a scanty dress of rags and skins, and a gourd leaf on her hair.
   她光着脚，但是身上穿着由兽皮和碎布制成的明显偏小的衣服，头上顶着一片葫芦叶。
10. Lily and the children could follow more slowly, harnessing the horse and cart to convey their scanty possessions.
    莉莉和孩子们可以在后面慢慢地跟，坐马车把他们仅有的一点家产运来。
11. He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.
    他必须根据现有的几条不充分的线索进行推理。
12. Assumptions shall not be made on the basis of scanty information, especially scanty radar information.
    不应当根据不充分的资料，特别是不充分的雷达观测资料做出推断。
13. His knowledge of mathematics is superficial and scanty.
    他的数学知识浅显、贫乏。
14. His grandfather made a scanty living by practising feng shui for people.
    他的祖父靠给人看风水勉强维持生计。
15. The crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water.
    船员们开始节约使用储量不多的淡水。
16. Even so since quantitative data were scanty and the photon so radical an idea it remained unaccepted by many.
    虽然如此，由于定量的数据还不足，而光子又是这样激进的一个概念，很多人仍然不愿接受它。
17. Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread.
    晚饭不多，量不足，没有肉，也没有别的佐料，只有劣质的面包。
18. He was cut off from all but a scanty radio communication with his armies.
    他同他的部队之间除了零星无线电联络以外，一切的联系都被切断了。
19. Information is again very scanty from low-and middle-income countries and no data are available at national or regional levels.
    在低收入和中等收入的国家信息来源较少，许多国家或地区无数据。
20. The news today is so far scanty, but good.
    今天的消息不多，但很好。
21. Fresh water is a natural resource, and at the same time, a scanty resource.
    摘要淡水是一种自然资源，同时又是一种短缺资源。
22. To this scanty inventory of material wealth, ought to be added their land;
    还应把土地计入这个贫乏的物质财富清单；
23. The qualitative analysis of a predator-prey system with scanty effect for the constant invest of prey
    一类食饵具有常投放的稀疏效应捕食系统的定性分析
24. Our supply coffee and tea is scanty.
    我们的咖啡，茶供应量不足。
25. It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy. The painter mostly adopted realistic painting methods, but also used some folk and traditional Chinese painting techniques.
    因此，那些给他写文章的人必须借助于活跃的想象以弥补贫乏的事实，看来也就不足为奇了。画家在进行严谨的写实描绘中，借鉴了民间美术和传统工笔重彩的表现手法。
26. I haven't got a good enough figure to wear such a scanty dress.
    我的身材还不够苗条，穿不上这么窄小的衣服。
27. The information available is scanty.
    可得到的信息寥寥无几。
28. When visiting churches and temples, propriety indicates that shorts and scanty clothing be avoided.
    当访问教堂和庙宇时，要避免穿短裤和裸露的衣服。
29. The rainfall was rather scanty this month.
    这个月的雨量不足。
30. We have only received scanty information fo far.
    我们迄今只收到了少量情报。

noun

1. short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

   Synonym:    pantiepantystep-in

adj

1. lacking in amplitude or quantity
   1. a bare livelihood
   2. a scanty harvest
   3. a spare diet

   Synonym:    bare(a)spare