Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty.

目前证明这股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊实例并不。

He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.

必须根据现有不充分线索进行推理。

His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy.

眼皮和稀疏凌乱头发，让看起来像是没睡醒样子。

He went out of the room calling 'Ewing! ' and returned in a few minutes accompanied by an embarrassed, slightly worn young man with shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blonde hair.

走出屋子喊了一声" 艾温" ，又过了几分钟才回来，带来一个难为情、面容有点憔翠年轻人，一副玳瑁边眼镜，稀稀金黄色头发。

That is a breathtakingly scanty period though it must be said that by this point in our history we did have thousands of years of practice behind us in the matter of irreversible eliminations.

这是一段令人吃惊短暂时间尽管我必须说，到我历史这个时候，我在不可逆转地灭其物种方面已经干了数千年。

Ferrier carried the bag of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty provisions and water, while Lucy had a small bundle containing a few of her more valued possessions.

费瑞厄提着钱袋；杰弗逊·侯波带着不口粮和饮水；露茜提着一个小包，里边有她一些珍贵物品。

The Wonderful Supper As Baucis had said, there was but a scanty supper for two hungry travelers.

美好晚餐正如柏西斯所言，只能给两位饥饿旅行者提供仅有一点粗劣晚饭。

They were traveling lighter now than when they arrived in Atlanta. Most of them carried only a carpetbag and a scanty lunch done up in a bandana handkerchief.

比起来亚特兰大时，现在旅行已轻松得，大只携一个提包和一顿用手帕包着简便午餐。

But he bore all with patience, and ate, without complaint, the scanty crusts given him every day for dinner, while his companions often fared sumptuously.

杜霍布赖特耐心地忍受着这一切，毫无怨言地承受下来，每天晚餐只给很少圆面包，而同伴则吃得很丰盛。

The scantiest vegetation can scarcely draw nutriment from the ungenial soil, and animals shun the dreary and shelterless wilds.

稀少植物艰难地从坚硬土壤中吸取营养，而动物则避开这些寂，毫无遮蔽荒野。

Living in cramped, shabby apartments, working at dreary jobs, standing in long lines for scarves and scanty consumer goods.

住在狭窄简陋公寓里，工作枯燥无聊，还经常需要排长队才能拿到围巾和匮乏消费品。

My mom and I had pooled our resources to supplement my winter wardrobe, but it was still scanty.

我和妈妈已经把我钱凑起来，给我新添了冬天穿衣服了，但还是没少。

It was a gloomy company that huddled under the dripping trees to eat their scanty supper.

这是一支情绪低落队伍，聚集在大树下面，分食那少得可怜晚餐。

His ginger-colored beard was scantier than ever, streaked with tobacco juice and as ragged as if he clawed at it incessantly.

那把姜黄色胡子显得比以前少了，上面沾着烟叶汁，而且有点蓬乱，好像在不断地搔它似。

The hair was dishevelled, grey, and scanty.

头发蓬乱、灰白、稀疏。

Scanty, tight petticoats is not a reference to short dresses that were, you know, scanty.

紧身短衬裙并非指那些你知道短小衣物，即所谓“短裙”。

I was sent with a scanty lunch, while my school-fellows brought plenty of good food.

送我午餐很少， 而我同学则带来了很美食。

With much difficulty Anthony retained a scanty breech-clout of dignity.

安东尼好不容易才保住了一丝尊严。

Poor Clifford was cut off, at once, from all his scanty resources of enjoyment.

可怜克利福德立即被切断了所有微不足道享受资源。

In that I took a famous painter, Paul Gauguin, and, using the novelist's privilege, devised a number of incidents to illustrate the character I had created on the suggestions afforded me by the scanty facts I knew about the French artist.

在那里，我找了一位著名画家保罗·高更， 并利用小说家特权， 设计了一些事件来说明我根据我对这位法国艺术家了解所提供建议所创造人物。