英语释义

• a small and inadequate amount

片语

water scarcity水短缺，水荒

Create scarcity增加紧缺感和时效性

scarcity rent稀缺地租

food scarcity粮荒

superfluity scarcity额外

relative scarcity相对稀缺（指自然资源的总供给能够满足总需求，但分布不均衡会造成局部的稀缺）

new scarcity新稀缺

temporary scarcity临时性不足

moderate scarcity适度的匮乏

scarcity goods希少资源

英汉例句

• this is indispensable in a region like the near east, where the scarcity of water prohibits further agricultural expansion.

  对于近东这样的区域来讲，这是极为必要的，在这里，水的短缺限制了农业的扩展。

• particularly in the uk, they welcome the creation of artificial scarcity of land, via planning controls.

  特别是在英国，他们欢迎通过规划控制，来人为造成土地稀缺的做法。

• if trust is about the distribution of rewards –about learning to expect bonuses from others –then it’s going to be a lot harder to share those rewards in an age of scarcity and deficits.

  如果信任的实质是报酬的分配——学会期望从他人处得到好处——那么在这样一个短缺与赤字的时代，与他人分享报酬将会艰难许多。

• the men with a sense of life’s scarcity wanted their women to carry some extra pounds, almost as if their partner’s fat could protect them against starvation.

  对生活某一方面感到匮乏的男人希望他们的女人更重一些，好像他们约会对象的脂肪可以保护他们避免饿死一样。

• 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。

• this feeling of scarcity encourages customers to come to the stores and buy frequently.

  这种让大家觉得稀缺的感觉促使人们经常光顾和购买。

• and where they are traded, they are often undervalued because their worth or scarcity is not fully appreciated.

  而且就算可以买卖，也因人们不能充分意识到它们的价值和稀缺性而被低估。

• it is a time of abundance, not scarcity — assuming we do the right things with a real national growth strategy.

  这是一个资源丰富而非稀缺的时期——如果我们采取一项实际的国家增长战略，做正确事情的话。

• the researchers say this could be due to a northward range shift in the mammal, a scarcity of the beast, or an increasing human preference for other prey species.

  研究者说这有可能是由于哺乳动物向北部山脉移动、兽类短缺或是人类越来越偏爱其他的猎物种类造成的。

• but the scarcity and variable quality of this tissue makes it an impractical therapy.

  但胰腺捐赠的稀缺性和其品质的多样性让这一疗法很不现实。

• inventory management stabilizes prices by supplementing supply in times of scarcity and boosting demand in times of surplus.

  库存的管理通过在食品短缺时期补足缺口，在产出过剩时刺激需求来稳定价格。

• this scarcity is the fundamental reason why time and money are costs.

  这种稀缺性正是为什么时间和金钱都是有成本的根本原因。

• the more goods the better, unless we returned to the garden of eden; for this would mean that more natural scarcity has been alleviated, and living standards in society have increased.

  除非我们身在伊甸园，否则商品越多对社会越有益，因为这意味着自然的稀缺性被缓解了，整个社会的生活标準得到了提高。

• does it mean that the relationship entails a scarcity of love or an abundance of love?

  是否意味着两人的关系造成了爱的匮乏，抑或造成了爱的泛滥？

• another sign of change is corporate japan’s sudden zeal for mergers and acquisitions, despite the uncertain business environment and a scarcity of capital.

  变革的另一个标志就是虽然商业环境难以预测以及资金不足，日本企业却突然热衷于合并及收购。

• countries have been responding to high food prices and grain scarcity by scaling up efforts to achieve grain self-sufficiency and rebuild their public reserves.

  国家对高涨的粮食价格和食品短缺作出的反应是，进一步努力提高粮食自给能力和重新建立公共储备。

• this allowed prices to do their job of signalling scarcity and abundance, even as it avoided the disruptions and hardship suffered by other transition economies.

  即使它避免了其他转型经济遇到破裂和艰难险阻，这让他们可以用价格尺度来标明稀缺和过剩的工作。

• cleaning dust manually is not practical because of the scale of the installations and the scarcity of water in desert regions.

  由于太阳能装置的尺寸很大，而且沙漠地区干燥缺水，因此人工清除尘土是不切实际的。

相似词

infrequency罕见；很少发生

uniqueness独特性；独一无二；单值性

rareness稀薄；稀罕；珍奇

rarity罕见；珍贵；珍品（需用复数）；稀薄

inadequacy不足，不够好；能力不足；缺点，弱点；不适当；不完全

deficiency缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额

paltriness不足取；无价值

dearth(Dearth)人名；(英)迪尔思

poorness贫穷；拙劣；缺乏

need需要，必须； 特别需要，迫切要求；欲望；（食物、钱或生活来源的）短缺，缺乏；必需品；贫困（或困难）的处境

lack缺乏，不足

insufficiency不足，不充分；机能不全；不适当

deprivation剥夺；损失；免职；匮乏；贫困

thinness薄；瘦；细

famine饑荒；饑饿，奇缺

shortage缺乏，缺少；不足

paucity缺乏；少数；少量

poverty贫困；困难；缺少；低劣

want需要；缺少

absence没有；缺乏；缺席；不注意

drought(Drought)人名；(英)德劳特