scarcity
英 ['skeəsɪtɪ]
美['skɛrsəti]
- n. 不足；缺乏
词态变化
复数: scarcities;
中文词源
scarcity 缺乏，不足
scarce,缺少的，小足的，-ity,名词后缀。
英英释意
- 1. a small and inadequate amount
英文词源
- scarcity (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old North French escarcete (Old French escharsete), from eschars (see scarce).
同义词辨析
lack, want, absence, shortage, scarcity
这些名词均含"缺乏，不足"之意。
lack： 普通用词，指部分或完全的不足。
want： 指完全或短缺某物，侧重缺少之物是必需的东西。使用范围比lack窄些。
absence： 指某物根本不存在或完全短缺，或某人虽存在，但未到现场。
shortage： 指不足，但侧重达不到规定的，需要的或已知应有的数量。
scarcity： 指产量不足或缺乏某物难以应付或满足需要。
考试真题
- As my colleague Vann Newkirk reported, Puerto rico is still confronting economic and structural destruction and resource scarcity from 2017's Hurricane Maria.
2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
- Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.
2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- a time of scarcity
- 物资短缺时期
牛津词典
- a scarcity of resources
- 资源短缺
牛津词典
- ...an ever increasing scarcity of water.
- 水资源的日益匮乏
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Gold is valued not for its scarcity, but as a hedge against inflation.
- 因为黄金的价值不在于其是一种稀缺资源, 而在于它在通货膨胀中的保值作用.
期刊摘选
- But there are risks to using false scarcity as a strategy.
- 但是,使用短缺错觉这种营销策略是有风险的.
期刊摘选
- Economics must still contend with scarcity as a basic fact of life.
- 经济学仍然必须和稀缺相周旋,把稀缺当作生活中一种基本的事实.
辞典例句
- A language of plenty for a land of scarcity.
- 这是把一门富饶的语言放在了一片贫瘠的国土.
期刊摘选
- Is water scarcity being caused by climate change?
- 水短缺是由气候变化引起的 吗 ?
期刊摘选
- In addition, excessive secretion of oil, water scarcity are also major factors.
- 除此之外, 油脂分泌过盛 、 缺水也都是主要因素.
期刊摘选
- As demand? and prices? rise, a scarcity of fossil fuels will bring economic restructuring.
- 随着需求增加和价格的上涨, 化石燃料的短缺将引发经济重组.
期刊摘选
- The real cause is either a scarcity of goods or a surplus of money.
- 真正的原因是商品匮乏或货币过剩.
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- Singapore is a scarcity of land resources of the city state.
- 新加坡是一个土地资源匮乏的城市型国家.
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- Strange diseases are known for their peculiarity, bizarreness and scarcity.
- 怪病以奇特、怪异 、 罕见而得名.
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- The scarcity of food forced prices up.
- 食物短缺促使价格上涨.
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- The nature of commodity is the characteristic of usefulness, scarcity, limit and exchange.
- 商品的本质属性是有用性 、 稀缺性 、 有限性和交换性.
期刊摘选
- The traditional economics studies the inner laws of economic growth on the acknowledgement of resources scarcity.
- 传统经济学在承认资源稀缺的前提下,研究经济增长的内部规律.
期刊摘选
- And scarcity will worsen with global warming, the central government warned in a directive.
- 中央政府在指示中警告说,全球变暖对水资源枯竭起到恶化作用.
期刊摘选
- Planners are struggling to cut waste now to prevent scarcity later.
- 计划制定者们正竭力减少目前的浪费,而避免以后缺水.
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- 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.
期刊摘选
- Abundance One of the most common human fears is scarcity.
- 知足常乐贫穷是人类最普遍的恐惧之一.
期刊摘选
- The scarcity of fruit was caused by the drought.
- 水果供不应求是由于干旱造成的.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Costs, not physical scarcity, are the only economic test of a shortage of natural resources.
- 自然资源匮乏的唯一经济判断是成本, 而不是实物的稀缺.
辞典例句
- The scarcity of skilled workers is worrying the government.
- 熟练工人的缺乏困扰着政府.
《简明英汉词典》
- The scarcity of medals has also been blamed for the current shortage of American heroes.
- 也有人认为,勋章的减少要归咎于现在美国英雄的短缺.
期刊摘选
- Network time has what economists call scarcity value.
- 电视时间具有经济学家所谓的稀缺价值.
期刊摘选
- Absent scarcity and alternative uses of available resources, there is noeconomic problem.
- 缺乏稀缺和现有资源的其他用途, 就没有经济学问题.
期刊摘选
- That would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity.
- 那只是预示我们将有七年丰收和七年饥荒.
辞典例句
- To be sure, we still face the economics of scarcity.
- 是的, 我们依然面对稀缺经济.
期刊摘选
- For by that time the producers be ruined and a great scarcity be upon us.
- 等不到那一天,生产厂商已经倒闭,大家只有陷入大短缺的恐慌之中.
期刊摘选
- a time of scarcity
- 物资短缺时期
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》