scarcity
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
源自古諾曼語 escarcete，字面分析等同於 scarce + -ity。
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名词[编辑]
scarcity (可數 和 不可數, 複數 scarcities)
- (不可數) 缺少，缺乏，贫乏
- July 6, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 136
- Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.
- 1994 February, Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy”, 出自 The Atlantic[1]:
- To understand the events of the next fifty years, then, one must understand environmental scarcity, cultural and racial clash, geographic destiny, and the transformation of war.
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- July 6, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 136
- (可數) 短缺，少量，不足量
- a scarcity of grain
- 粮食短缺
- 2013 9月 24, Damien Ma, William Adams, “China's Next Great Challenge: Scarcity”, 出自 The Atlantic[2]:
- The crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.
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近义词[编辑]
- (缺乏)： infrequency、rareness、rarity，参见Thesaurus:rareness
- (少量)： dearth、deficiency、lack、infrequency、penury、rareness、rarity、want，参见Thesaurus:lack
反义词[编辑]
- (缺乏)： frequency、commonness，参见Thesaurus:commonness
- (少量)： abundance、copiousness，参见Thesaurus:excess