scarce
scarce 英 [skeəs] 美 [skers]
adj. 缺乏的，稀少的 adv. 几乎不；几乎没有
比较级:scarcer 最高级:scarcest
- If something is scarce, there isn't much of it around. Crops are scarce after a long drought, or you might find babysitters scarce if your kids are a nightmare to watch.
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- adj. 缺乏的，稀少的
- adv. 几乎不；几乎没有
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1. scarce resources
稀缺资源
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2. Food was becoming scarce.
食物越来越紧缺。
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3. Details of the accident are scarce.
事故的详细情况了解不多。
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4. I can scarce remember him.
我几乎想不起他了。
- scarce (adj.) c. 1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarpere "pluck out," from classical Latin excerpere "pluck out" (see excerpt). As an adverb early 14c. from the adjective. Phrase to make oneself scarce "go away" first attested 1771, noted as a current "cant phrase." Related: Scarcely.
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