1. 動詞
   scant現在分詞:
   及物動詞:
   減少...(物)
   限制...(物)
   剋扣...(物)
   節省...(物)
   忽略...(人事物)
   藐視...(人事物)
   

   同義字詞
   nurse,skimp (on),spare,stint (on)
   

例句

1. The Power Elite Reconsidered," Chapter 3 in The End of Ideology ), properly chastising Mills for scanting the differences between New Deal and Republican administrations, but also charging him–in the middle of the twentieth century!3⁄4 with an overemphasis on power as violence.
2. Following the opening of the Adams family papers in the 1950s, Page Smith published the first major biography to use these previously inaccessible primary sources; his biography won a 1962 Bancroft Prize but was criticized for its scanting of Adams' intellectual life and its diffuseness.
3. The merchant unwittingly parodies Christ's resurrection in his withdrawal to his counting-house to review his affairs: He descends only to join the rest of the household in a superficial scanting of Christian ritual between the call of the business world and the lure of socializing: Note the distraction and reluctance implied by the"" But..."" at the beginning of line 251 in comparison with the consecutive"" And..."'s that introduce more pleasing activities.