scarcity
英語 編輯
詞源 編輯
源自古諾曼語 escarcete,字面分析等同於 scarce + -ity。
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名詞 編輯
scarcity (可數 和 不可數,複數 scarcities)
- (不可數) 缺少,缺乏,貧乏
- 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
- 糧食短缺
- 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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近義詞 編輯
- (缺乏): infrequency、rareness、rarity,參見Thesaurus:rareness
- (少量): dearth、deficiency、lack、infrequency、penury、rareness、rarity、want,參見Thesaurus:lack
反義詞 編輯
- (缺乏): frequency、commonness,參見Thesaurus:commonness
- (少量): abundance、copiousness,參見Thesaurus:excess