scarcity

英语编辑

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scarcity

词源编辑

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

发音编辑

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

scarcity (可数和不可数，复数 scarcities)

(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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(可数) 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

衍生词汇编辑

异序词编辑

city cars

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