简单释义：

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adj. 一丁点的；微小的；不足的；欠缺的

v. 缩减；克扣；吝惜；不客气地对待

adv. 几乎不[没有]

网络 缺乏的；限制；节省

完整释义：

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adj.

1.缺乏的,不足的,不够的
2.缺乏,不到;稀稀拉拉
3.微,一点,很少
4.不屑
5.恰好够的
6.将近的
7.俭约的,节省的;吝啬的

v.

1.不客气地对待
2.限制,缩减
3.克扣;吝惜

adv.

1.〔美方〕好容易才,几乎不[没有]

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例句：

1. Adding to the mix: scant year-end trading, which tends to exacerbate price swings.
   此外，年末时清淡的交投放大了价格变化。

2. A scant five years ago the only time you saw Robert Downey Jr. getting big play in your newspaper came when he was on a perp walk.
   而大约不到5年前，小罗伯特·唐尼唯一一次获得新闻报纸的大版面，是因为他被警察游街示众。

3. In Bangladesh, she had been given scant medical care; in Washington, a counselor implied that she was to blame for the attack.
   在孟加拉国，她没有能获得足够的医疗护理；在华盛顿，一名顾问暗示她应对攻击事件负责。

4. The July stress tests, which did not allow for sovereign defaults, offer scant guidance.
   7月份的压力测试，因为没有考虑到主权违约，缺乏指导意义。

5. The regular entrance of thirty-five dollars a week to one who has endured scant allowances for several years is a demoralising thing.
   每星期35块钱的固定收入，对一个几年来一直忍受着靠几个零花钱过日子的人，是会产生消极影响的。

6. If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.
   到美国来之前，杰拉尔德没有受过多少教育，可是他对此并不怎么有自知之明。

7. He had never run anything in his entire life. He had a scant public record, but oddly this worked to his advantage.
   他一生没有做过什么，鲜有公共档案，但这些却奇怪地成为了他的优势。

8. China has made scant progress on schemes drawn up nearly a decade ago to limit pollution in and around the reservoir.
   中国在大约十年前制定了一些计划控制水库内及周边的污染。