Christmas spirit was definitely thin on the ground in the Gryffindor common room that morning.

那天早晨格兰芬多的公共休息室里，圣诞节的气氛肯定是淡薄的。

" I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest."

“老实说，我觉得决战时可没有什么约会的机会。”

The problem is that, at an aggregate level, evidence for head-honcho greed is thin on the ground.

问题是，从总体上看，表明老板们贪婪的证据很少。

But office-based blockbusters are still pretty thin on the ground: typing, malfunctioning toilets and meetings are just not that exciting.

但以办公室为背景的大片仍然非常少见：打字、厕所故障和开会实在没法让人感到兴奋。

But cases seem to have been thin on the ground.

但实际案例似乎很少。

Taxis seem to be thin on the ground.

【thin，thinness】出租车好像不多。

Richardson makes many good points, but references and counterpoints are too thin on the ground.

理查森提出了很多很好的观点， 但参考文献和对立点在地面上太薄弱了。

850--Officers are thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

陆军军官都挺消瘦的 这可能会改变你的决定。

Such kind of learning mode is thin on the ground these days.

这种学习模式如今已经很少出现了。

If something is thin on the ground, there's very little of it, but if it's abundant, there's plenty or more than enough.

如果某物寥寥无几，那是指它非常少，但如果它很充足，意思是它很多或很充裕。

In this part of the world at this time around nine thousand years ago, other food resources were very thin on the ground.

九千年以前，在地球的这部分地区，其他食物来源相当之贫乏。也没有容易驯化的动物。

Until around the 1970s, Spencer said, dumping legislation was thin on the ground, with few records of what was being dumped and where.

斯宾塞表示，在大约 1970 年之前，垃圾倾倒的法规很少，几乎没有关于倾倒对象和倾倒地点的记录。

Few will be surprised to learn that artists are abundant in New York and California, and thin on the ground in Mississippi and West Virginia.

纽约和加州艺术家数量众多，密西西比州和西弗吉尼亚州艺术家很少。对于这一调查结果，没有什么人表示惊奇。

Because opioid use is particularly addictive over the long term, solutions for those with chronic pain are especially thin on the ground.

由于长期使用阿片类药物特别容易上瘾，因此针对慢性疼痛患者的解决方案特别稀少。

Lizzy dear, if you welcome to accompany us, the pig district is not brighton and offices are very thin on the ground which may influence your decision.

Lizzy 亲爱的， 如果你欢迎陪我们，猪区不是布莱顿， 办公室在地面上非常单薄， 可能会影响你的决定。

Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.

因为这些数学家博学多才，能把他们的众多成就解释给普通人看的传记作家本身就寥寥无几。

Because there's no sunlight on the ocean floor, it's hard for plants and creatures to survive, so forms of life are thin on the ground – there are only a few of them.

因为海底没有阳光，植物和动物很难生存，所以生命形式寥寥无几——只有少数几种。