The scantiness of the record led to the widespread belief that dinosaurs were on their way out already when the KT impact occurred.

由于缺少化石记录，许多人认为，恐龙在KT撞击发生的时候已经在走向没落。

The abundance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter.

这种供应的匮乏， 似乎也更多地取于这两种情况中的前， 是后。

Such disorderly persons, however, seldom rear up numerous families, their children generally perishing from neglect, mismanagement, and the scantiness or unwholesomeness of their food.

然，这种守规矩的人很少养育无数的家庭，他们的孩子通常因疏忽、管理善、食物足卫生夭折。

Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two circumstances.

无论任何特定国家的土壤、气候领土范围如何， 在该特定情况下， 其年度供应的匮乏都必须取于这两种情况。