sparsely

1 Their sound in the room, as on the album, was warm but atmospherically dry, as sparsely furnished as Ms. Martin’s singing.

2 Here, the tables and benches were more widely spaced and sparsely populated.

3 He considered a sparsely populated region most suitable, but such regions were few in crowded China.

他认为人烟稀少的地方最合适, 可是这样的地方在人口稠密的中国是不容易找到的.

4 There are deserts so sparsely vegetated that they create spread beyond anything Wright imagined for his communities.

5 We were two beings in a sparsely populated realm that consisted of the sickest of sick souls.

6 In season, this tiny, sparsely populated landmass might boast a literary-superstar-to-square-mile ratio unequaled anywhere outside Brooklyn.

7 They don’t compare to this empty, sparsely lit road called American Street where only a dog barks and an old man sings before the break of dawn.

8 After a sparsely populated fall and a winter of postponements, most of the major theaters have programmed plays that invite audiences to laugh, even if many of those laughs eventually catch in their throats.

9 Initially, we had worried about finding accommodations in Vang, which is in a sparsely populated rural area.

10 Situated on Pittsburgh’s sparsely populated North Shore, where its most prominent neighbors are stadiums used by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, the museum is halfway between two busier areas.

11 When Bruce Springsteen ushered in the return of Broadway last month, he played for a packed St. James Theater of 1,721 sparsely masked, vaccinated fans.

12 The finale on E! was sparsely promoted ahead of time by the network and just so happened to arrive on a day when Emmys coverage dominated entertainment news. 

13 The problem of rents is easy for a noneconomist, even a sparsely educated low-wage worker, to grasp: it’s the market, stupid.

14 Her subsequently jailed fiance told her he was “the chief financial officer of the Vatican”, yet he turned out – how to put this sparsely? – not to be.

15 The play “King Stag” ended its run in September 1918, after three sparsely attended performances.

16 Debut album Colonial Patterns avoids the sheen of much modern production, with sparsely pulsating synths and tempered, industrial percussion that sometimes slowly morphs into brooding house and techno.

17 But these can be sparsely attended, so he usually just celebrates early.

18 I saw a sparsely attended preview on Friday, when the official world premiere would have taken place had not bad weather, with frozen rain and black ice on the roads, stepped in.

19 Four years after the outing, Plame and her family fled Washington for one of the most sparsely populated states in the union.

20 The tubular bells, chimed only sparsely, added to the ceremonial feel.

1 简朴地

simply severely plainly modestly

2 缺乏

close empty weak tired absent scarce devoid barren wanting destitute stingy skimpy starved scanty privative badly-off awanting out skimpily want lack failure absence poverty deficiency hardship famine deprivation scarcity dearth paucity destitution poorness fail be void of in want of run low be lacking in be hard up be short of in the absence of devoid of pressed for

3 稀少地

infrequently meagrely

4 简朴

simple clinical severe plain spare modest sparse Spartan unpretentious abstemious simply severely plainly modestly simplicity severity modesty plainness sparseness starkness

5 不足

short shy inadequate insufficient deficient wanting scant stingy skimpy lacking out poorly inadequately want lack failure poverty deficiency deficit shortage minus shortfall scarcity shortness insufficiency fail be short of poorly off come short fall short lacking in

6 不足地

short poorly inadequately

7 缺乏地

skimpily

8 稀少

poor thin tight sparse infrequent exiguous infrequently exiguity sprinkling sparseness infrequency sparsity rareness scarceness fewness far and few between thin on the ground far between meagrely