The scantiness of the record led to the widespread belief that dinosaurs were on their way out already when the KT impact occurred.

由于缺少化石记录，许多人认，在KT撞击发生的时候已经在走向没落。

The abundance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter.

这种供应的丰富或匮乏， 似乎也更多地取于这两种情况中的前者， 而不是后者。

Such disorderly persons, however, seldom rear up numerous families, their children generally perishing from neglect, mismanagement, and the scantiness or unwholesomeness of their food.

然而，这种不守规矩的人很少养育无数的，们的孩子通常因疏忽、管理不善、食物不足或不卫生而夭折。

Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two circumstances.

无论任何特定国的土壤、气候或领土范围如何， 在该特定情况下， 其年度供应的丰富或匮乏都必须取于这两种情况。