In history, only a few monarchs have served even longer.

回顾历史，统治时期达到这么久的君主寥寥。

It was not the flood of rehiring economists had predicted, more like a trickle.

经济学家所预测的再就业大潮没能实现，再就业人数寥寥。

There are very few filmmakers who consistently live up to that ideal.

在电影界，始终坚守这份艺术追求的导演寥寥。

But the group heavily depends on foreign doctors because few local plastic surgeons are available.

但该组织严重依赖外国医生，因为当地的整形医生寥寥。

I have known very few writers, but those I have known and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.

我的认识的作家寥寥，然而凡是我所认识和尊敬的作家，都立即承认在他们动笔时，不楚要写什么，怎么写。

Too few of us register them as happiness.

但视之为幸福的人寥寥。

The temperature drops to -30 and very few people attempt to cross the Pass.

气温降到零30，图跨越山口的人寥寥。

“But they can be hard to find.”

但这样的人才寥寥。”

It was pretty empty at this point, too.

目前硬座车厢里乘客也寥寥。

There was little about Dumbledore he was sure of now, but he knew that much.

关于邓布利多，他现在有把握的事已寥寥，但这一点他是知道的。

Few Americans are able to get accepted into every one of the Ivy League schools.

能够同时接到美国所有常青藤大学录取通知的学生寥寥。

There have been few dependable studies on mental health issues in the country.

在这个国家，关于心理健康问题的可靠研究寥寥。

There were few people on the street to see him. It was only about ten at night, but it was cold. And there was a wind with a little rain in it.

差不多是晚上十点了，街上行人寥寥，冷风飕飕地吹着，有种雨水的味道。

If something is thin on the ground, there's very little of it, but if it's abundant, there's plenty or more than enough.

如果某物寥寥，那是指它非常少，但如果它很充足，意思是它很多或很充裕。

Most will leave behind thousands of dollars, a home or not much at all.

大多数人会留千或万美元、一套房子，或者寥寥的东西。

A huge building only a handful of people working there.

巨大的建筑，但办公的人却寥寥。

But that will not be easy. After losing their mojo, formerly high-flying tech firms rarely recover it, with a few notable exceptions, such as Apple after Steve Jobs's second coming as boss in 1997.

但这并不容易。 在失去他们的运气之后，原来一帆风顺的科技公司能重振旗鼓的寥寥——不过也有一些例外，比如史蒂夫·乔布斯在1997年第二次回归后的苹果公司。

" Lots of people act well, " answered the Miller, " but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also."

" 很多人都做得不错，" 磨坊主回答说，可说得好的人却寥寥，可见在两件事中讲话更难一些，也更加迷人一些。"

In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole.

在文明普及的重镇和都市，拥有自己住所的人寥寥。

Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.

因为这些数学家博学多才，能把他们的众多成就解释给普通人看的传记作家本身就寥寥。