That, however, is scant comfort to its increasingly anxious neighbours.

然而这理由并不足以抚慰它忧心憧憧的邻们。

Sometimes they threw bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse.

有时，他们给他扔点儿食物，但却得到感谢；有时，他们恶作剧地向他扔块鹅卵石，他就还之以无数石块，且破口大骂。

But there is scant evidence that the process is dangerous.

但是要证明该项工艺的危险性还是有待进一步考证。

We were scant of breath after the lengthy climb.

长时间的运动后，我们感觉呼吸困难。

And the research there is even more scant.

相关的研究更是之又。

It grows in areas where sunlight is scant and competition is intense.

它生长在阳光稀的地方且竞争激烈。

Good data concerning the effects of menstruation on athletic performance are scant.

关于月经对运动成绩影响的好数。

But again, the information that we've been receiving has been fairly scant at this stage.

但是，我要再强调一遍，目前我们得到的信息非常有限。

A different man faces the same problems SYRIANS can be forgiven for paying scant attention to the inauguration on July 6th of a new president of the Syrian National Coalition, the political opposition's umbrella group in exile.

换个面孔处理相同问题叙利反对派的流亡伞状组织——叙利联盟——在七月六日迎来了一位新主席，而这场就职典礼却未成为叙利人关注的焦点。但这也情有可原。

Aunt Pitty's house was in an uproar, for the news of Scarlett's sickness had sent the old lady to bed in a state with Cookie in attendance, and breakfast was a scant meal that Peter concocted for the children.

皮蒂姑妈家里也乱成一团了，因为思嘉生病的消息传来，姑妈一下子就病倒了，保姆去照顾她，彼得将就着为孩子做了一顿简单的早饭。

Recent experiments offer scant grounds for optimism. Romania, Italy and Spain are targeting renewable-power generators, which have not experienced the same increase in costs as generators that use fossil fuels.

最近的实验难让人乐观。罗马尼、意大利和西班牙正将目标瞄准可再生能源电力公司，因为这些电力公司的成本没有像使用化石燃料的公司那样上涨。

Mr. Trump and his party appeared to be receiving scant political advantage from the state of the economy, which has grown steadily during his presidency and pushed the unemployment rate below 4 percent.

特朗普和他领导的共和党就好像已经只能从这个家的经上攫取的政治优势了，尽管在他执政期间，美的经一直在稳步增长，失业率也控制在了4%以内。

There is a profusion of fresh vegetables laid out for sale, so much celery, so many Dutch beans, tomatoes, even broccoli and parsley. How different things were only a scant couple of decades ago.

有丰富的新鲜蔬菜摆在那卖，这么多芹菜，这么多荷兰豆，西红柿，甚至还有花椰菜。在不到15年以前，情况就大不相同了。

The old-timer at the bait shop had handed her a rod -- a scant three feet long, designed for ice fishing -- off the wall the first time she'd gone in there.

鱼饵店的老前辈给了她一根钓竿--不到三英尺长，是专为冰上钓鱼设计的--她第一次去的时候，老前辈是从墙上把鱼竿拿下来的。

After he had eaten his supper in the ranch house, he took up the newspaper which had come that morning, and drew his chair into the scant light of the kerosene lamp.

在牧场的房子里吃过晚饭后，克林特拿起早晨送来的报纸，把椅子拉到煤油灯微弱的灯光下。

From that point, details are scant: the two men somehow got into a fight, during which Mr Zimmerman says his nose was broken, before he shot the unarmed 17-year-old.

从那时开始，后面发生具体情节语焉不详。两人不知何故打了起来，打斗中，齐默曼的鼻子被打折，然后他向这名手无寸铁的17岁年开了枪。

Tianli and Tongtong found that in-person training programs cost about 20,000 yuan for a six-month period, but as recent graduates with scant savings, they both elected to study on their own.

田力和彤彤发现，一对一的培训项目每6个月的培训费用约为2万元，但作为刚毕业的大学生，他们积蓄不多，所以都选择了自学。

(That the website wastes no time in turning bitter will come as scant surprise to regular users.) No one is about to ascribe powers of causation to X.

(推特能瞬间情绪消沉，这对经常使用该网站的用户来说并不令人惊讶。)没有人会将因果关系的力量归于X。

But many of India's weaker banks, saddled with legacy problems and uncertain loan losses, are likely to attract scant interest from investors.

但印度多实力较弱的银行，背负着遗留问题和不确定的贷款损失，他们可能难以吸引投资者的兴趣。

The 'missing millennia' because she says archaeological data are scant in that part of southeast Asia, from four to six thousand years ago.

之所以说“丢失了的几千年”，是因为她说东南该地4000-6000年前的考古资料缺失。