单词
scantly
['sk?ntli]
基本信息
- adv. 仅仅；缺乏地
英文词源
- scantly (adv.)
- late 14c., from scant + -ly (2). OED reports it "exceedingly common from the 15th to the middle of the 17th c.; in the 18th c. it had app. become obsolere; revived in literary use by Scott."
双语例句
- 1. Spending Scarlet, like a Woman, Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly Like a Lover's Words.
- 自然女神鲜用黄,较之其它色.省下都付与夕阳.——大片泼蓝色, 又似女人好鲜红.启用黄色时,千挑万选尤慎重,如爱人措辞.
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