scant
- IPA[skant]
英式
- barely sufficient or adequate；barely amounting to a specified number or quantity
- provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts；deal with inadequately; neglect
verb: scant, 3rd person present: scants, gerund or present participle: scanting, past tense: scanted, past participle: scanted
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. barely sufficient or adequate companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations
- ▪ barely amounting to a specified number or quantity she weighed a scant two pounds
動詞
- 1. North American provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts he does not scant his attention to the later writings
- ▪ North American deal with inadequately; neglect the press regularly scants a host of issues relating to safety and health
- 更多解釋
- IPA[skant]
美式
- barely sufficient or adequate: companies with scant regard for the safety of future generations
- provide grudgingly or in insufficient amounts: he does not scant his attention to the later writings
Oxford American Dictionary
知識+
scant , scanty
兩字均為形容詞，scant 亦作 及物\不及物動詞、副詞、名詞用 並列比較其中差異如下： scanty...scant (a.)不充分的,不足的 (vt.)減少,吝嗇,限制,藐視,忽略 例句及分析： scant /sk'ænt/ Scant \Scant\, v. i. To fail...
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