單詞
scantly
['sk?ntli]
基本信息
- adv. 僅僅；缺乏地
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 1. Spending Scarlet, like a Woman, Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly Like a Lover's Words.
- 自然女神鮮用黃,較之其它色.省下都付與夕陽.——大片潑藍色, 又似女人好鮮紅.啟用黃色時,千挑萬選尤慎重,如愛人措辭.
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