Until recently, most of the answers have come from scholars with scant knowledge of economic theory.

直到现在，我们仍然可以从那些缺乏经济理论知识的学者们得到各种不同的答案。

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While there are many minor variations of the Soundex algorithm, they all have scant knowledge of English spelling rules, not to mention the exceptions to these rules.

虽然soundex算法有许多小的变体，但是他们都缺少对英语拼写规则的认识，更不用说这些规则的例外了。

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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。

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The course was rewritten to assume little or no faith, and only scant knowledge of the Bible.

ECONOMIST: The Church of England

Many of the people surveyed said they did not know much about contraception to begin with -- 63 percent said they knew little or nothing about birth control pills, and 30 percent said they had scant knowledge about condoms.

CNN: Gaps found in young people's sex knowledge

Though hard knowledge of the risks is scant to nonexistent, guesses by the government's mad-cow experts suggest that the average Briton is 60 times more likely to die by lightning, 750 times more likely to drown in the bathtub, 24, 000 times more likely to die playing soccer.

ECONOMIST: Tough on death, tough on the causes of death