| 单词 | scarcity |
| 释义 | scarcity noun[U] uk/ˈskeə.sə.ti/us/ˈsker.sə.t̬i/C2 asituationin which something is noteasytofindor get: 缺乏；不足；短缺the scarcityofskilledworkers缺乏熟练工人 Opposites abundanceformal plenty Scarce, inadequate and not enough
scarcity| American Dictionaryscarcity noun[C/U] us/ˈskeər·sɪ·t̬i/alackof something: [C]A scarcity offlourmakesbread,cake, and otherbakedgoodsmoreexpensive. scarcity| Business Englishscarcity noun[SorU] uk/ˈskeəsəti/usasituationin which something is noteasytofindor get: a scarcity of sthThere is a scarcity ofskilledworkersin thebuildingsector. Examplesofscarcityscarcity If households will plant, at what level of fuelwoodscarcitywill they decide that planting trees for fuel is a worthwhile investment? From theCambridge English Corpus This is probably an artefact caused by the relativescarcityof saplings and a few larger saplings found close to adult trees. From theCambridge English Corpus This is because prices or preferences expressed in money terms do not reflect relative scarcities and social priorities and preferences in these areas. From theCambridge English Corpus The problems ofscarcity, in terms of urban space and resource, were not resolved even after economic reform. From theCambridge English Corpus Meaningful analysis of female occupation and illiteracy is thus non-viable because of thescarcityof data. From theCambridge English Corpus This finding sheds a critical light on the use of "organscarcity" as a moral knock-out phrase. From theCambridge English Corpus This is unlike agriculture where there are physical limits to increased productivity due to thescarcityof land. From theCambridge English Corpus This implies that concerted evolution is not acting, which is corroborated by thescarcityof signatures of gene conversion and recombination. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps most noteworthy was thescarcityof farm labourers among the lieutenants, captains, and commandants who ran the movement in the parishes. From theCambridge English Corpus We leave it to future research to more fully investigate the link between resourcescarcity/relative distribution, conflicts, and herd mobility. From theCambridge English Corpus As might have been expected, there is a rather close connection between the avoidance of fill-in and the maintenance ofscarcity. From theCambridge English Corpus Thescarcityof materials on women living in frontier regions makes it harder to retrieve either personal or communal memories. From theCambridge English Corpus Clearly, resource prices must eventually reflect an increase in the absolutescarcityof low entropy. From theCambridge English Corpus This implies that relationships among relevant participants will reflect informationscarcity. From theCambridge English Corpus Under conditions of severescarcity, or when the relative viability of different infants varies significantly, the costs of getting the trade-off wrong could be high. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithscarcityscarcityThese are words often used in combination withscarcity. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. artificial scarcity His principal purpose is to bring about an artificial scarcity ill order to raise prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 conditions of scarcity Furthermore, protecting the sources of that information, in conjunction with the overall conditions of scarcity, helped patrons to justify their personalised interventions into bureaucratic processes. From theCambridge English Corpus growing scarcity Both factors helped to overcome ecological constraints imposed by agrowingscarcityof land and timber. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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