Bilgi sınırlıdır; bilgelik daha sınırlı.
- Knowledge is scarce; wisdom is scarcer.
Buralarda yiyecek sınırlı mı?
- Is food scarce around here?
Yağmur bu ülkede seyrektir.
- Rain is scarce in this country.
Telefon kulübeleri burada çok az bulunur.
- Telephone booths are very scarce around here.
Telefon çalmadan önce güç bela eve varmıştım.
- Scarcely had I reached home before the telephone rang.
Ben ona neredeyse hiç inanamıyorum.
- I can scarcely believe it.
Neredeyse gözlerime inanamıyordum.
- I scarcely believed my eyes.
Tom hemen hemen hiç egzersiz yapmaz.
- Tom scarcely ever gets any exercise.
Tom hemen hemen hiç egzersiz yapmaz.
- Tom scarcely ever gets any exercise.
O adını güçlükle yazabiliyor.
- He can scarcely write his name.
Tom güçlükle Mary'yi tanıdı.
- Tom scarcely recognized Mary.
Bir gökkuşağı belirmeden önce, hemen hemen yağmur durmuştu.
- Scarcely had the rain stopped before a rainbow appeared.
Tom hemen hemen hiç egzersiz yapmaz.
- Tom scarcely ever gets any exercise.
Neredeyse hiç para kalmamıştı.
- There was scarcely any money left.
O, neredeyse hiç tv izlemez.
- He scarcely ever watches TV.
Öğrenciler sorular sormaya başladığında sınıfa henüz girmiştim.
- I had scarcely entered the class before the students started asking questions.
Yangın çıktığında pazar henüz açılmıştı.
- Scarcely had the market opened when the fire broke out.
Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.
Perhaps I should make myself scarce before he finds any more miserable tasks to assign to me.
His clothes could scarcely be called shabby, at least they passed muster in the half-light, but one’s imagination could not have pictured the wearer embarking on the purchase of a half-crown box of chocolates or laying out ninepence on a carnation buttonhole.
One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best—for that we must have recourse to art.
Country doctors are as scarce as hen's teeth.
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