Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?

你落笔会颤抖胆怯，还鲜明果敢？你想象会丰富还贫乏？

Just as in Iceland, hidden cashes can be a life saver during winter's lean times.

和冰岛情况相同食物在冬季贫乏时可以救命。

The more fear then spirals into mistrust and poor medical care.

越多害怕就会造成医患之间不信任, 以及贫乏医疗救助。

It was shocking for me to discover how little I knew about sludge.

真没想到我对淤泥知识竟然这么贫乏。

Will it be born into a world of abundance or scarcity?

他出生世界会资源充足还贫乏？

The pianist's technique was excellent, though his interpretation of the work was poor.

这钢琴家技巧非常优秀，虽然他对此作品解释贫乏。

The supply will have to last them through the lean and cold times ahead.

这些储备必须维持它们度过前面贫乏而寒冷时日。

Cockroaches are able to thrive even in nutrient-poor environments.

蟑螂可以在营养贫乏环境下繁衍生息。

Now, this is hugely significant for the country because Japan is a resource-poor nation.

这对日本来说意义重大，因为日本本身资源贫乏国家。

Her mind was too tired to think of anything except fear of death.

贫乏得除了恐惧和死亡以外，什么也无法想了。

Heidegger's ambition was to move away from philosophy as an overly anemic and intellectual endeavor.

海德格尔野心要摆脱哲学这种过于贫乏和理智努力。

Alas, they are gone and we live on a much diminished planet.

哎，它们都去不复运了，我们人类生活在很贫乏星球上。

For most desert dwellers, life revolves around the meagre rains.

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏雨水便生活所有期盼。

Our individual failings are submerged; we become greater than the sum of our meagre parts.

我们人缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分总和更强大。

Time poverty has also been exacerbated by digital technologies.

数字技术也加剧了时间贫乏现象。

He criticized the American culture that he said was rich in goods but poor in social services.

他批评了美国文化，他认为美国商品丰富，但社会服务贫乏。

It's a high poverty community, low graduation rates, high crime, infrequent opportunities for science or nature access.

这非常贫困地区有着极低就业率、很高犯罪率、因此对科学及自然追求自然十分贫乏。

Many mental-health services still do not meet the standards recommended by NICE, and communication between services is poor.

很多心理健康服务不符合NICE推荐标准，并且服务之间交流也很贫乏。

Which brings us to another reason for our uncertainty about extinctions: the paltriness of the fossil record.

贫乏化石记录。

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.

对于我自己来说，关于毅力最让我震惊事情莫过于，对于毅力，我们知之甚少，在培养毅力上，科学对理解认识又何等贫乏。