scarce
scarce 英 [skeəs] 美 [skers]
adj. 缺乏的，不足的；稀有的 adv. 仅仅；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，不足的；稀有的
- adv. 仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有
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1. Because of this, all types of supplies were scarce.
因为这些原因，所有的供给都比较紧张。
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2. Yes, because markets are the best mechanism for allocating scarce resources.
是，因为市场是配置稀缺资源的最佳制度形式。
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3. Once your brain realizes that working time is scarce, you suddenly become a lot more efficient because you have to be.
一旦你的大脑认识到工作时间很紧迫，你突然间就会变得极有效率，因为你必须如此。
- 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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