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1·Food was scarce and expensive.

食物匮乏而且昂贵。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Food was becoming scarce.

食物越来越紧缺。《牛津词典》

3·Bear in mind that gas stations are scarce in the more remote areas.

记住，加油站在那些比较偏远的地区是很稀少的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Hospital beds were scarce and medicines were practically non-existent.

当时医院病床紧缺，药物根本所剩无几。《牛津词典》

5·This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.

这种训练没有效果，浪费了稀有资源。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Because oil and natural gas became scarce?

因为石油和天然气变得稀缺了，是吗？

7·How did diatoms survive if zinc is so scarce?

如果锌如此缺乏，硅藻是如何生存的呢？

8·We should find better ways to make good use of scarce resources.

我们应该找到更好的方法来充分利用稀缺资源。

9·However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.

然而，它们有实际的影响，因为它们导致了对稀缺资源的错误使用。

10·As trees became scarce and they could no longer construct wooden canoes for fishing, they ate birds.

由于树木变得稀少，他们不能再建造木制的独木舟来捕鱼，只好捕食鸟类。

稀缺的

1·Because oil and natural gas became scarce?

因为石油和天然气变得稀缺了，是吗？

2·We should find better ways to make good use of scarce resources.

我们应该找到更好的方法来充分利用稀缺资源。

3·However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.

然而，它们有实际的影响，因为它们导致了对稀缺资源的错误使用。

4·Economists fear that within the next 100 to 150 years, the earth's resources will become very scarce.

经济学家担心，在未来100到150年内，地球的资源将变得非常稀缺。

5·If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.

如果一个以上的物种竞争稀缺的资源，竞争的物种通常会转向不同的替代资源。

稀少

1·As trees became scarce and they could no longer construct wooden canoes for fishing, they ate birds.

由于树木变得稀少，他们不能再建造木制的独木舟来捕鱼，只好捕食鸟类。

2·It may be that males can use scarce carotenoids either for immune defense and detoxification or for attracting females.

可能是雄性可以利用稀少的类胡萝卜素进行免疫防御和解毒，或者吸引雌性。

3·Compared with Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana, the study on Verticillium lecanii is scarce.

相对于金龟子绿僵菌和球孢白僵菌而言，对于蜡蚧轮枝菌的研究十分稀少。

4·But the operation has also been criticised for focusing scarce resources on thinly populated areas.

但是这次行动也被指责为是在人口稀少的地区争夺稀少的资源。

5·Even if the rise in output comes about but in the wrong way, there could be problems, since water in some areas is growing scarce and increasing food output will make it scarcer.

如果采用不恰当的方式，那么即使粮食产量增长，也会问题多多，因为某些地区的水源已经越来越稀少，而提高粮食产量会使其更稀少。

缺乏的

1·How did diatoms survive if zinc is so scarce?

如果锌如此缺乏，硅藻是如何生存的呢？

2·With fuel scarce, most farmers rely on oxen.

由于燃料缺乏，大多数农民依赖耕牛。

3·And when applicants are abundant and jobs are scarce, some employers say that they should be able to pick and choose candidates who carry no legal baggage.

在申请者数量充裕而工作很缺乏的情况下，一些雇主认为自己应当能够精挑细选出没有犯罪背景的候选人。

4·He said that even though Banks were being criticised for not lending enough to businesses - or at too high a rate - without quantitative easing and other measures, credit would be even more scarce.

他说，即使银行受到指责没有给企业提供足够贷款或者以很高的利率放贷，要是没有定量宽松及其他措施，信贷会更加缺乏。

5·Dolphins appear to mimic diabetes to maintain high levels of blood sugar when food is scarce.

海豚看起来似乎在食物缺乏时模仿糖尿病状态，以此来保持高血糖浓度。

匮乏的

1·Food can be scarce in the deep waters off Australia.

澳大利亚深海海域的食物有时会很匮乏。

2·According to the textbooks, capital should flow from rich countries with abundant capital, such as America, to poorer ones, such as China, where capital is relatively scarce, so returns are higher.

教科书上称，资本应该会从诸如美国这样的资本充裕的发达国家向资本相对匮乏的穷国流动，比如说中国，这样的回报率会更高。

3·You will feel unsure about yourself when you are living in fear.You will also start developing a scarce mentality that will distort your vision of what you are capable of accomplishing.

当你生活在忧虑之中时，你对自己会感到不自信，还会建立起一种匮乏的心态，这种心态会歪曲你对有能力完成的事情的见解。

4·You will feel unsure about yourself when you are living in fear. You will also start developing a scarce mentality that will distort your vision of what you are capable of accomplishing.

当你生活在忧虑之中时，你对自己会感到不自信，还会建立起一种匮乏的心态，这种心态会歪曲你对有能力完成的事情的见解。

5·With jobs so scarce, wages stagnated even as the cost of living rose, forcing households to borrow to maintain their standard of living.

由于工作机会匮乏，即便生存成本攀升，收入也还是滞涨，这迫使美国家庭纷纷举债以维持原先的生活水平。

稀有的

1·This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.

这种训练没有效果，浪费了稀有资源。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·This can become a problem if these objects are holding on to large or scarce native resources.

如果这些对象占用着大型或稀有本机资源，就有可能导致出现问题。

3·Life is a scarce resource.

生命是一种稀有资源。

4·What kind of a premium will investors pay for stocks that reliably churn out scarce cash in the form of dividends?

对那些以股息形式可靠地提供稀有现金的股票，投资者愿意支付什么样的溢价水平？

5·It's a strategy aimed at avoiding and managing conflicts over the competition for the scarce land and water resources.

该项目可以说是旨在为避免和管理因稀有土地和水资源竞争而引发的冲突而制定的一项战略。

不足的

1·In Chlamydomonas, the gene only gets switched on when environmental conditions are poor-for instance, when sunlight or nutrients are scarce.

衣藻只有在环境十分恶劣的时候才会激活这种基因——比如说在阳光和营养物都不足的时候。

2·As for other Banks that don't, imposing higher capital ratios on them immediately might only discourage them from lending money to businesses, at a time when credit is already scarce.

至于其他没有达到要求的银行，在这样一个信贷已经不足的时期，立即强制要求它们提高资本充足率可能只会阻碍它们对企业放贷。

3·As Britain crawls out of recession and jobs remain scarce, demand for university education has been soaring.

由于现在英国刚走出萧条，工作机会仍然不足，对大学教育的需求日益高涨。

4·And when resources become scarce, the body will starve cells that are less important to its survival to divert more resources to the most crucial cells.

资源不足时，身体会将更多的养分转移到最重要的细胞处，而其他细胞的供给就没那么重要了。

5·But to understand how supplies became so scarce in the first place, one must look at the state of the oil industry in Russia, the world's second-biggest producer.

但是，首要的是要明白供给是如此不足，得看看到作为世界第二大石油生产国的俄罗斯当下石油产业的状况。

紧缺的

1·Food was becoming scarce.

食物越来越紧缺。《牛津词典》

2·Building effective partnerships in order to make best use of scarce resources and minimize duplication in efforts to improve maternal and newborn health.

创建有效的伙伴关系以便最佳利用紧缺的资源并在改善孕产妇和新生儿健康方面尽量减少工作重叠。

3·In the past, when food or raw materials were scarce, real value increased, because possession gave the owner an advantage for suivival.

在过去，当食物和原料都紧缺的时候，它们的真正价值就提升了，因为这些东西赋予了拥有者生存下去的有利条件。

4·In the areas worst hit by the quake, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, and food and blankets are scarce.

在地震受灾最严重的地区，已经有成百上千的人撤离了家园，现在食品和毯子非常紧缺。

5·Power demand side management can solve our country electric power scarce question.

电力需求侧管理是解决我国电力紧缺问题的有效手段。

难得的

1·We used to pass by the freight sheds looking for rotten fruit - but even that was scarce.

我们常从货车棚旁走过，看看有没有烂水果，可甚至连这也很难得。

2·When he sits alone at a scarce moment, silhouette of the coir raincoat turns up clearly, staying adamantly at one corner of his mind.

当他在难得的寂静时分一个人端坐，蓑衣的影子就清晰地显现出来了，在脑海的某个角落里难以拂去。

3·Heaps of garbage obstructs the scarce flow of dirty water. The grounds are littered with plastic bottles and bags.

成堆的垃圾阻碍了污水难得的流动，地面上到处是丢弃的塑料瓶和塑料袋。

4·There are millions of steers in the world, but human happiness is kinda scarce.

世界上有千千万万头牛，但人间幸福却是很难得的。

5·Thee plan of nationalDouble Tops construction provides scarce opportunity for local colleges to construct first-class university and disciplines.

国家“双一流”建设方案，为地方高校建设一流大学、一流学科提供了难得的机遇。

少见

1·Very low concentrations of vanadium, which is scarce in meats and somewhat lower in nuts than in other plant resources, are good evidence of meat consumption and thus a better-balanced diet.

极低浓度的钒在肉类中很少见，在坚果中的含量也比在其他植物资源中较少，这很好地证明了吃肉的好处，从而使得饮食也更加均衡。

2·These traits require a degree of modesty scarce among those ambitious enough to clamber to the top.

这些品质需要一定程度的谦逊，而这在那些野心勃勃、一心往上爬的人中很是少见。

3·These are heated times: the number of comparative (or attack) advertisements is growing, as companies battle for scarce consumer dollars amid the recession.

这些激烈的时刻：公司为了争夺少见的顾客钞票，同时应付衰退，比较(或者攻击性)广告的数量正在增长。

4·Before the mid-Cretaceous, 100 million years ago or so, flowering plants were scarce: conifers and their relations ruled the landscape.

白垩纪中期之前，也就是说大约1亿年前，开花植物很少见：裸子植物占据着地球的景观。

5·Article of total pot poem is decorous, sculpture character is like natural and smooth writing, clever and carefree, what make an excellent work of stannic tea service for Shen Cunzhou, very scarce.

全罐诗文高雅，雕刻文字如行云流水，灵动畅快，为沈存周所制锡茶具之佳作，极为少见。

(1)scarce resources稀有资源