scarcity
美 [ˈskersəti] 
英 [ˈskeə(r)səti]
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英汉双解
1. | 缺乏；不足；稀少if there is ascarcity of sth, there is not enough of it and it is difficult to obtain it |
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| a scarcity of resources 资源短缺 |
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例句
This scarcity may have been one reason that he didn't intervene, as he might have been expected to, in Patty's battle with Carol Monaghan.
他没有像大家所指望的那样去调停帕蒂和卡洛尔·莫纳亨之间的争拗，周末常常不在家或许就是原因之一。
However, due to the scarcity of human transplantable organs, many limits have to be set up in the application of organ transplantation.
但由于人体可供移植器官的稀缺，在这一高科技应用过程中不得不设定了一些限制条件。
Scarcity is at least as much about politics and power as overall supply.
资源稀少是既是供应问题，也是政治和权力的。
The delight of the children at the sight of some dish on the table showed that it was a scarcity.
孩子们一看到桌子上的菜时的喜悦表明，那是一种稀缺。
But at least having to adapt to both plenty and scarcity makes for a more versatile upbringing than one of remorseless overindulgence.
但至少，被迫既要适应丰裕糊口、又要适应捉襟见肘的糊口，比过着不知悔改、放纵无度的糊口更有益成长。
U. S. intelligence officials believe water scarcity is shaping up to be one of the main potential drivers of future global conflict.
美国情报官员认为，水源稀缺将形成未来全球冲突的一个主要潜在导火索。
And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias.
然而，存在一个场合，在这里经济学家与犯有“造作工作成见”罪的普通门外汉从同一角度谈论岗位稀缺。
The balance scales held by the rider to measure out the grain, and the very high price of the grain seem to indicate scarcity of food.
骑士手上拿的天秤是来衡量价值的，而食物出奇的贵代表了食物的短缺。
The word is externalities, a concept that holds that money is not the only scarcity in the world.
这便是“外部性”，该概念告诉我们，货币并非世界上唯一的稀缺性。
Struggle is hard, no matter how you paint it. But living in scarcity doesn't have to be struggle. That's completely up to you.
无论如何描述这种生活，苦苦挣扎都并非易事。但是，短缺的生活中，你也没必要感觉辛苦。这要取决于你自己。
Having waited long enough for his invitation to regain its scarcity value, the tousle-haired dictator is at it again.
在经过漫长的等待以体现其奇货可居后，这位蓬发独裁者终于发出了他的第二次邀请。
The scarcity of water is seldom reflected in its price, or in that of the farm products that consume so much of it.
水的缺乏很少反映在其价格上，或消费如此多的农产品上。
Affordability has long been a challenge for the state, thanks to its sunny beaches and relative scarcity of buildable lots.
由于加州阳光明媚的海岸众多，并且可建筑用地相对缺乏，让人们买得起房一直是加州政府面临的一项挑战。
To men of letters, Spring is always the goddess Muse. There has never been scarcity of singing for Spring whenever and wherever.
春一直是文人墨客的缪斯女神，古今中外，歌颂春天的诗句数不胜数。
A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.
给量，定量一个固定的份量，特指在物资缺乏时供给军队股役人员或平民的一定量的粮食
The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price.
物价昂贵年度的荒歉，由于减少了劳动需求，因而会降低劳动的价格。
However, it is their scarcity in passing option that makes it a major concern for me.
然而，对于他们让我最头疼的问题在于他们的传球选择上。
In times of scarcity or drought, sharing everything may mean that many go hungry only eating a little, but at least each has something.
在缺乏或干旱的时期，共享每一样事物意味着许多人变得饥饿，只吃一点点，但至少每一个人都有吃的。
These variables affect the amount of water, and for that reason the potential risks of flooding and droughts and water scarcity.
这此变量影响水量，并决定了水灾、干旱和水短缺这些潜在风险。
It wasn't all roses and cream, but there were many, many positive things that came out of this scarcity.
尽管这样的生活中不尽称心如意，但短缺的生活中，许多积极的因素还是不断涌现。
It is relatively easy to explain the circumstances in which scarcity arises.
解释让匮乏产生的场合还相对容易。
Scarcity choices can be seen as a bad thing, but I see it as liberating. I'm not saying we should have no choices, but fewer is better.
少些选择可能会被认为是坏事情，我却认为这是自由。我不是说我们应该别无选择，而是说适当有些选择会好一点。
The lack of such a correspondence in the old scheme was defended by the fundamental fact of scarcity.
在过去体制下，这种一致性的缺乏被匮乏的基本现实所庇护。
But like any luxury good, the high price and relative scarcity -- and sense of exclusivity that creates -- is part of its appeal.
但是正如任何奢侈品一样，高价格和相对稀缺——以及由此创造出的“高端”感觉——构成了苹果一部分的吸引力。
Following the free rehearses the inevitable fall of prices, and takes advantage of the only true scarcity: human attention.
追求免费，提前迎接无可避免的技术滑落，而且运用唯一真正的稀有资源————人们的注意力。
In periods of speedy progress, it seems, stubborn reactionaries at least enjoy a certain scarcity value.
看起来，在快速进步时期。顽固的反动分子至少享受了一定的稀缺性价值。
Disease, wounds, hardship and scarcity have always been part of my life. I don't complain.
疾病、伤痛、艰辛和贫穷一直是我生活的一部分。我不抱怨。
Back in the era of scarcity, they were a rare calorie-rich treat to fill the chronically hungry belly.
在物资稀缺的年代，因为月饼富含热量，通常被用来填饱肚子。
Hebei province is one of the most serious water scarcity provinces. Water resources scarcity seriously restricts national economy.
河北省是我国缺水最严重的省份之一，水资源短缺严重制约着河北省国民经济的可持续发展。
Scarcity means that society has limited resources and therefore cannot produce all the goods and services people wish to have.
稀缺意思是说，社会拥有有限的资源，不能生产出人们想要的所有物品与劳务。
Envy often seems to come from a perceived scarcity in some area of your life.
嫉妒往往来源于你在某些方面的匮乏感。
Anticipating scarcity by overeating in times of plenty would be no bad thing if times of scarcity were a real risk.
如果匮乏之时是个真正风险，那么在富余之时吃多一点作为应对匮乏的准备，无可厚非。
Scarcity of supply or population shifts are often used to rationalise high house prices, but such fundamentals should push up rents, too.
人们经常使用供应短缺或人口流动来解释高房价，但是这些基本因素也会推动房租上涨。
If there was a scarcity of anything, prices of that thing went up.
如果什么物品短缺，那种物品的价格就会上涨。
It is all right here. I am astonished at how you humans have tricked yourselves into seeing this world of abundance as a world of scarcity.
而你们人类却总是欺骗自己，把这样一个多姿多彩的世界看成是荒芜暗淡的世界，这简直令我瞠目结舌。
a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.
缺乏金钱或存款的状态。
More recently, economists have also been obliged to deal with the concept of absolute scarcity.
最近以来，经济学家们又不得不去研究绝对稀缺这一概念。
The strategy they're employing is called "velvet rope" as in what nightclubs do to build scarcity and interest in getting on the inside.
fm采用的策略与夜总会所谓的“天鹅绒围栏”如出一辙，它们都造成一种稀缺感，勾起人们光顾的欲望。
China is no longer the destination for those looking to accumulate hardship tales of scarcity, penury and adversity overcome.
中国不再是那些为了填补传奇故事的空白，克服贫瘠和坎坷的族人的目的地了。
Scarcity does seem to be feeding the frenzy.
饥饿营销确实看起来在满足疯狂。
