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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[编辑]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.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 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
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