scantiness
基本解释
- n.缺乏；不足
英汉例句
- Scantiness of modesty is short of knowledge.
缺少谦虚就是没有知识. - The abundance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter.
此外，上述供给的好坏，取决于前一情况的，似乎较多。 - Colleges and universities in China are now in a critical period of development, characterized by scantiness of funds and resources on the one hand but extravagances on the other.
摘要我国高校正处于发展的关键时期，一方面经费和资源紧缺，另一方面浪费现象严重。 - Today I still feel keenly the necessity for thorough research into Chinese and world affairs; this is related to the scantiness of my own knowledge of Chinese and world affairs and does not imply that I know everything and that others are ignorant.
我现在还痛感有周密研究中国事情和国际事情的必要，这是和我自己对于中国事情和国际事情依然还只是一知半解这种事实相关联的，并非说我是什么都懂得了，只是人家不懂得。 - 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.
不论一国土壤、气候和面积是怎样，它的国民每年供给的好坏，必然取决于这两种情况。