scarce

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scarce1 /skeəs $ skers/ adjectiveadj (comparativecomp scarcer, superlativesupl scarcest)

1 RAREif something is scarce, there is not very much of it available 不足的，缺乏的，稀少的

Food was often scarce in the winter.

冬季常常粮食短缺。

There was fierce competition for the scarce resources.

对这些紧缺资源的争夺非常激烈。

2 make yourself scarce informalLEAVE A PLACE to leave a place, especially in order to avoid an unpleasant situation 〔为避免出现令人不快的情形而〕离开，溜走

I decided it was time to make myself scarce.

我觉得自己该走了。

Examples from the Corpus

make yourself scarce• The Magistrate, mortified, had made himself scarce.• When Gary and Clare began to argue, Reg decided to make himself scarce.• I didn't wait to be told twice and I made myself scarce.• Maggie had made herself useful to her stepmother by running the house, and yet continued to make herself scarce.• I made myself scarce as quickly as I could.• He has refused to speak to Hundley and is making himself scarce at the Delta Center to local reporters.• You'd better make yourselves scarce before the manager gets here.• For the next few days I made myself scarce, hoping his bad mood would pass.• For the next few days I made myself scarce, hoping that his displeasure was temporary.• He generally makes himself scarce in his room with his computer.

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scarce• After the war, food and clothing were scarce.• During the war, things like clothes and shoes were scarce.• With the increase in trade, good timber for shipbuilding was becoming scarcer.• Entirely reliable facts, other than those here mentioned, are scarce.• New-model Golfs are still scarce and dealers are paying high prices to secure them.• Thus, female orangutans choose to live alone in strict territories, the better to exploit their scarce food resources.• Aye, but you must remember that money was so scarce in the thirties that you couldn't miss anything.• Water is always scarce in these parts.• Cheap, clean hotel rooms are scarce in this city, especially in the summer.• In consequence, amphibian fossils become very scarce indeed in later geological periods and there are long gaps in their fossil history.• There is evidence that volatile materials have always been scarce on the Moon.• Mayors have to juggle scarce resources to keep their cities working.• Government departments often found themselves competing for scarce resources.• There the principal threat to the diversity of fish has been competition with man for scarce supplies of water.

scarce resources• At the same time others may, through overfunding, be absorbing an unfair amount of scarce resources. 2.• Such decisions may have substantial implications for individual and social welfare and the allocation of scarce resources.• Gaining approval, competing for scarce resources, and obtaining cooperation require managers to develop bases of power beyond positional authority.• It is a process whereby scarce resources are allocated among competing powers and claimants.• Create and focus energy and meaningful language because they are the scarcest resources during periods of change.• For Hughes and Sumner there is too much competition for scarce resources for that to be convincing.• Thus old people preserved their dignity; the community preserved its scarce resources for the young.• Because of this, a strong administrative apparatus was needed to plan the use of scarce resources, organize production and regulate distribution.

scarce2 adverbadv literary

JUST/ALMOST NOTscarcely 几乎不[没有]

He could scarce believe it.

他几乎无法相信此事。

Examples from the Corpus

scarce• It is past before it has scarce begun.• The picture forming in his mind was clearer, more distinct, though he could scarce believe it.• With his own wife he scarce dare attempt it.• The problem of the prophecies was solved albeit in a way he had scarce expected.• Her memory returned fully ... She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago.

From Longman Business Dictionary

scarcescarce /skeəsskers/ adjectiveadj

if something is scarce, there is not enough of it available

Here, land is a scarce resource and house prices have risen sharply.

Jobs are scarce.

—scarcity noun [singular, uncountableU]

the present scarcity of labour

Origin scarce1

(1200-1300) Old North French escars, from Vulgar Latin excarpsus “pulled out”, from Latin excerpere; → EXCERPT

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