Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty.

目前证明这股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊的实例并不多。

He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.

他们必须根据现有的不充分的线索进行推理。

My mom and I had pooled our resources to supplement my winter wardrobe, but it was still scanty.

我和妈妈已经把我们的钱凑起来，给我新添了冬天穿的衣服了，但还是没多少。

Barney knew scantiest amount of French and not a syllable of anything else.

巴尼只懂一点点法文，其他外语一个字都不会。

The Wonderful Supper As Baucis had said, there was but a scanty supper for two hungry travelers.

美好的晚餐正如柏西斯所言，只能给两位饥饿的旅行者提供仅有的一点粗劣晚饭。

It was a gloomy company that huddled under the dripping trees to eat their scanty supper.

这是一支情绪低落的队伍，他们聚集在大树下面，分食那少得可怜的晚餐。

Mr He's work appears to have had the scantiest oversight and a vice-minister says it violates regulations.

贺建奎的工作似乎有个大的疏忽，一位副部长称这种做法违反了规定。

The scantiest vegetation can scarcely draw nutriment from the ungenial soil, and animals shun the dreary and shelterless wilds.

稀少的植物艰难地从坚硬的土壤中吸取营养，而动物则避开这些沉寂的，毫无遮蔽的荒野。

Living in cramped, shabby apartments, working at dreary jobs, standing in long lines for scarves and scanty consumer goods.

他们住在狭窄简陋的公寓里，工作枯燥无聊，还经常需要排长队才能拿到围巾和匮乏的消费品。

The hair was dishevelled, grey, and scanty.

头发蓬乱、灰白、稀疏。