be scant of的意思|示意

Even if I could make a strong case for the stock and turned out to be right, I'd take scant satisfaction from making money from this kind of disaster.

即使我能准确预测股市，从此类灾难中获利也难让我有满足感。

Though his newfound fame will be of scant consolation to the lonely hound as his owner is yet to be found.

但新名声却不能给这条孤单的小狗多少安慰，因为它的主人依然没有出现。

But that will be of scant consolation to those who believed the book, since 13 years later the Dow is at around 13,000, not 36,000.

但这对那些推崇这本书的人来说，显然缺少安慰。因为13年后，道指仅为13,000点左右，远不是书中所说的36,000点。

The sums would be of scant interest were it not for the fact that the man measuring out his life in ink that day was Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

但如果用墨水记录生命中这些数字的人不是纳尔逊·罗利拉拉·曼德拉，或许就不会引起人们太大的兴趣了。

If I were Steve Jobs, I wouldn’t be rattled by by of them, although details are so scant on many that it’s impossible to form an opinion, period.

如果我是史蒂夫·乔布斯的话，我可不会被任何一款吓到（译注：原文有笔误），虽然有些的细节还不甚明了，目前还无法做出正式的看法。

Whatever geniuses and masters have never been scant through the far-reaching human history, only a few people could be accomplished in this kind of knowledge.

尽管如此，浩浩荡荡的人类历史当中，不乏天才、大师，但能精通此学问的人却不多。