scarce
音标：
英音/ skeəs / 美音/ skers /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Early in the war, as food became increasingly scarce, desperate Gazans were sometimes seen stealing from incoming aid lorries.
战争初期，随着食物日益匮乏，绝望的加沙人有时会从运来的援助卡车上偷窃。
—BBC
While the country’s social and political elite were largely insulated against the fallout, basics like food, cooking gas and medicine became scarce for ordinary people, fuelling resentment and unrest.
尽管该国的社会和政治精英基本上没有受到影响，但普通民众却变得缺乏食品、烹饪用气和药品等基本生活用品，从而加剧了不满和骚乱。
—BBC
Molly’s visits became more and more scarce until they stopped altogether.
莫莉的来访变得越来越少，直到完全停止。
—BBC
基本释意：
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缺乏的，不足的；稀有的，少见的；故意缺席的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Scarce, meaning “restricted in quantity,” can oddly be traced back to the same Latin word that spawned the word “excerpt.” Use the word scarce when you want to say that something is hard to find or practically missing. When you know you’re about to be asked to do something unpleasant, like wash the dishes or take out the trash, go ahead and “make yourself scarce,” which means to be elusive or get out of there fast.
如果某样东西是稀缺的，那么周围就没有太多了。长期干旱后农作物稀缺，或者如果你的孩子是一场噩梦，你可能会发现保姆很少。
长释义：
Scarce, meaning “restricted in quantity,” can oddly be traced back to the same Latin word that spawned the word “excerpt.” Use the word scarce when you want to say that something is hard to find or practically missing. When you know you’re about to be asked to do something unpleasant, like wash the dishes or take out the trash, go ahead and “make yourself scarce,” which means to be elusive or get out of there fast.
稀缺，意思是“数量有限”，奇怪的是可以追溯到产生“摘录”一词的同一个拉丁词。当你想说某样东西很难找到或几乎缺失时，请使用稀缺一词。当你知道你将被要求做一些不愉快的事情时，比如洗碗或倒垃圾，那就继续“让自己变得稀缺”，这意味着难以捉摸或快速离开那里。
文学例句：
“He didn’t know that wine is so scarce it’s selling for five thousand livres a cask!”
“他不知道葡萄酒如此稀缺，一桶售价五千里弗！”
—Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
“There is scarce a foot of water in the well,” he whispered.
“井里几乎没有一英尺深的水了，”他低声说道。
—The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
“Tell Mother not to wait up. I’ll head to the repair shop once the customers get scarce.”
“告诉妈妈别等了。等顾客稀少了，我就去维修店。”
—Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins
词源：
scarce (adj.)c. 1300, scarse, “restricted in quantity, barely sufficient in amount or effect; few in number, rare, seldom seen,” from Old North French scars “scanty, scarce” (Old French eschars, Modern French échars), which according to OED is from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from a presumed *escarpsus, earlier *excarpsus, past participle of *excarpere “pluck out,” from classical Latin excerpere “pluck out” (see excerpt).
As an adverb, “hardly, scarcely,” early 14c., from the adjective. Phrase make (oneself) scarce “go away, leave at once,” is attested by 1771, noted then as a current cant phrase. Related: Scarcely.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
稀缺（形容词）c. 1300，scarse，“数量有限，数量或效果勉强足够；数量很少，罕见，很少见到”，源自古北法语疤痕“稀疏的，稀缺的”（古法语 eschars，现代法语 échars），根据 OED源自通俗拉丁语 *scarsus，源自假定的 *escarpsus，较早的 *excarpsus，*excarpere“拔出”的过去分词，来自古典拉丁语 excerpere“拔出”（见摘录）。作为副词，“几乎，几乎”，14世纪早期，源自形容词。短语“让（自己）稀缺”“走开，立即离开”在 1771 年得到证实，当时被认为是流行的黑话。相关：很少。相关条目及更多
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