scarcity

英语

词源

源自古诺曼语 escarcete，字面分析等同于 scarce +‎ -ity。

发音

• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈskɛɹsɪti/
• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈskɛəsɪti/

• （英国南部）音频：

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名词

scarcity (可数 和 不可数，复数 scarcities)

1. (不可数) 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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2. (可数) 短缺，少量，不足量

   a scarcity of grain

   粮食短缺

   • 2013年9月24日, 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

• (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

• (缺乏)： frequency、commonness，参见Thesaurus:commonness
• (少量)： abundance、copiousness，参见Thesaurus:excess

衍生词汇

• artificial scarcity
• digital scarcity
• postscarcity
• root of scarcity

 

异序词

• city cars