scarcity
英音[ ˈskeəsəti ] 美音[ ˈskersəti ]

稀缺

常用释义

词性释义

n.

不足,缺乏
例句
  • 全部
  • 稀缺
  • 稀缺性
  • 缺乏
  • 不足
  • 稀有性
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
1·My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, "root of scarcity".
我的《1912年的农民百科全书》告诉我,“mangel-wurzel”从德语粗略翻译过来的意思是“稀缺的根源”。
2·Women's scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant—or even decreasing—disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.
在组织高层中,女性的稀缺可能只是代表了在连续层级中持续甚至是逐渐减少的劣势的累积效应。
3·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。
4·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。
5·Beginning with the undeniable assumption of scarcity, that school believed the human race was doomed to misery.
以资源的稀缺为前提,那个学派相信人类注定要陷入苦难之中。
1·In ancient Roman times, the Italian peninsula had great forest of fir preferred for warships, but scarcity was apparent as early as the early fourteenth century.
在古罗马时期,意大利半岛上有大面积的冷杉林,是建造军舰的首选材料,但是,冷杉的稀缺性早在14世纪早期就出现了。
2·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.
然而,世界各地的不管是富人还是穷人身上都可以看到感觉良好和为他人花钱之间的联系,而稀缺性提高了多数人对绝大多数事物的乐趣。
3·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。
4·First, the price for using Heathrow should reflect the value and scarcity of its capacity.
首先,使用希思罗的费用应当反映出机场承受能力的价值以及稀缺性。
5·Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. Much like throwing some fish food into a pond filled with starving Coi fish.
诸多比赛被设计成仅基于大众投票来选择优胜者,并且花费大量金钱来激发稀缺性思想,这些比赛如同扔些鱼食到挤满饥饿的鲑鱼池塘一样。
1·The paradox of the Albertine Rift is that its very richness has led to scarcity.
在艾伯丁裂谷,有一个悖论的说法是它的富饶导致了它的缺乏。
2·Those with the growling stomachs consistently gave less money to charity, suggesting that when people sense scarcity in one domain, they conserve resources in another.
那些饿着肚子的人捐的钱较少,这说明在某个领域感到缺乏的人会在另外的领域贮存资源。
3·Inflation also explains the scarcity of mortgages, now widespread elsewhere in Latin America.
通货膨胀也解释了抵押借款的缺乏,现在扩散至其他拉美国家。
4·Kinder Eggs' scarcity in the United States has made them an object of desire: Various websites and online forums are dedicated to acquiring them.
金德鸡蛋在美国的缺乏使他们反而变得越来越受人追捧:各种网站和在线论坛要求专门收购。
5·With the scarcity of metal toward the end of World War II, Project Habbakuk was an attempt to create aircraft carriers out of pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp.
由于在二战末期金属缺乏,哈巴库克项目做了个尝试,用冰和木浆的混合物制造航空母舰。
1·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。
2·Reasons given for this include scarcity or unaffordability of test kits, lack of infrastructure and shortage of trained staff.
对此提供的理由包括检测盒不足或负担不起,缺乏基础设施以及经培训的工作人员短缺。
3·Some of the companies at the forefront of water-saving campaigns are also acutely aware of their vulnerability to the growing scarcity of water, and to charges that they are guzzlers.
一些节水行动中最积极卖力的公司强烈地意识到了眼前的危机。 水资源的逐渐不足和公众对于用水过多的指责将对它们造成双重伤害。
4·The scarcity of surviving evidence gives Ms Sobel some poetic latitude.
现存证据的不足让索贝尔有了诗意想象的自由。
5·There were other puzzles: long-term interest rates ought to have picked up to reflect the scarcity of American savings and the concern about the dollar.
其它的疑问还有:由于美国的储蓄不足以及对美元走势的忧虑,长期利率应会出现升幅。
1·Their cost has risen more than that of other power plants; their scale, complexity and scarcity make it hard to economise.
核电站成本的涨幅比其他发电厂更多;它们的规模,复杂性,和稀有性使得节约成本难上加难。
2·And scarcity is what they sell.
而他们所卖的正是稀有性。
3·It's paper that creates cost and slows things down and generates scarcity.
是纸,造成了成本,使事情变慢,产生稀有性。
4·In other words, the scarcity of goods is 29 causes humans to attribute value.
换句话说,商品的稀有性29。正是让人们赋予价值的原因。
5·In more and more industries, abundance thinking is becoming a far more powerful engine for commerce than scarcity thinking ever has been.
在愈来愈多产业中,丰富性的经济思维正逐渐超越过去的稀有性思维,成为更强大的商业引擎。
常用短语
water scarcity
water scarcity - 水短缺,水荒
adj.+n.
同根词 (词根scarce)
scarce adj 缺乏的,不足的;稀有的
scarce adv 仅仅;几乎不;几乎没有
scarceness n 稀少;缺乏