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1·This scarcity is inevitable in less developed countries.

在欠发达国家这种匮乏是不可避免的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Either food scarcity or excessive hunting can threaten a population of animals.

食物短缺或过度捕猎都可能威胁到动物的数量。

3·In the wild, these birds store food for retrieval later during periods of food scarcity.

在野外，这些鸟会储存食物以备日后食物短缺时再取用。

4·If the group faces food scarcity, individuals in the group will reach reproductive maturity later than otherwise.

如果这个群体面临食物短缺的困难，那么这个群体中的个体将比其他群体更晚达到生殖成熟。

5·My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, root of scarcity.

我的《1912年的农民百科全书》告诉我，“mangel-wurzel”从德语粗略翻译过来的意思是“稀缺的根源”。

6·Thanks to men like Curtice, the bonds of scarcity had been broken and America was rolling to an all-time high of prosperity.

多亏了 Curtice 这样的人，“资源稀缺的束缚”被打破，美国正走向“空前的繁荣”。

7·This scarcity of biographical information is due primarily to his social position; he was not a noble, but the son of a leather trader.

传记信息不足主要是由他的社会地位造成的：他不是贵族，而是一个皮革商人的儿子。

8·Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscored the need for better coordination in organizations.

通货膨胀、资源短缺、人才水平降低和预算削减都突出了各组织中进行更好协作的必要性。

9·One reason for the scarcity is that there are fairly few women in management in Norwegian companies—they occupy around 15% of senior positions.

造成这种稀缺的一个原因是挪威公司管理层中女性相当少——她们占据了约15%的高级职位。

10·We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself.

我们所面对的未来，很可能是核武器大国为资源短缺而战；而这种短缺大部分是资本主义本身的结果。

稀缺

1·My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, root of scarcity.

我的《1912年的农民百科全书》告诉我，“mangel-wurzel”从德语粗略翻译过来的意思是“稀缺的根源”。

2·Women's scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant—or even decreasing—disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.

在组织高层中，女性的稀缺可能只是代表了在连续层级中持续甚至是逐渐减少的劣势的累积效应。

3·This allowed prices to do their job of signalling scarcity and abundance, even as it avoided the disruptions and hardship suffered by other transition economies.

即使它避免了其他转型经济遇到破裂和艰难险阻，这让他们可以用价格尺度来标明稀缺和过剩的工作。

4·Particularly in the UK, they welcome the creation of artificial scarcity of land, via planning controls.

特别是在英国，他们欢迎通过规划控制，来人为造成土地稀缺的做法。

5·Beginning with the undeniable assumption of scarcity, that school believed the human race was doomed to misery.

以资源的稀缺为前提，那个学派相信人类注定要陷入苦难之中。

稀缺性

1·In ancient Roman times, the Italian peninsula had great forest of fir preferred for warships, but scarcity was apparent as early as the early fourteenth century.

在古罗马时期，意大利半岛上有大面积的冷杉林，是建造军舰的首选材料，但是，冷杉的稀缺性早在14世纪早期就出现了。

2·Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.

然而，世界各地的不管是富人还是穷人身上都可以看到感觉良好和为他人花钱之间的联系，而稀缺性提高了多数人对绝大多数事物的乐趣。

3·And where they are traded, they are often undervalued because their worth or scarcity is not fully appreciated.

而且就算可以买卖，也因人们不能充分意识到它们的价值和稀缺性而被低估。

4·First, the price for using Heathrow should reflect the value and scarcity of its capacity.

首先，使用希思罗的费用应当反映出机场承受能力的价值以及稀缺性。

5·Contests that are designed to select winners based on popular votes only and huge dollar amounts inspire scarcity thinking. Much like throwing some fish food into a pond filled with starving Coi fish.

诸多比赛被设计成仅基于大众投票来选择优胜者，并且花费大量金钱来激发稀缺性思想，这些比赛如同扔些鱼食到挤满饥饿的鲑鱼池塘一样。

缺乏

1·The paradox of the Albertine Rift is that its very richness has led to scarcity.

在艾伯丁裂谷，有一个悖论的说法是它的富饶导致了它的缺乏。

2·Those with the growling stomachs consistently gave less money to charity, suggesting that when people sense scarcity in one domain, they conserve resources in another.

那些饿着肚子的人捐的钱较少，这说明在某个领域感到缺乏的人会在另外的领域贮存资源。

3·Inflation also explains the scarcity of mortgages, now widespread elsewhere in Latin America.

通货膨胀也解释了抵押借款的缺乏，现在扩散至其他拉美国家。

4·Kinder Eggs' scarcity in the United States has made them an object of desire: Various websites and online forums are dedicated to acquiring them.

金德鸡蛋在美国的缺乏使他们反而变得越来越受人追捧：各种网站和在线论坛要求专门收购。

5·With the scarcity of metal toward the end of World War II, Project Habbakuk was an attempt to create aircraft carriers out of pykrete, a mixture of ice and wood pulp.

由于在二战末期金属缺乏，哈巴库克项目做了个尝试，用冰和木浆的混合物制造航空母舰。

不足

1·Another sign of change is corporate Japan's sudden zeal for mergers and acquisitions, despite the uncertain business environment and a scarcity of capital.

变革的另一个标志就是虽然商业环境难以预测以及资金不足，日本企业却突然热衷于合并及收购。

2·Reasons given for this include scarcity or unaffordability of test kits, lack of infrastructure and shortage of trained staff.

对此提供的理由包括检测盒不足或负担不起，缺乏基础设施以及经培训的工作人员短缺。

3·Some of the companies at the forefront of water-saving campaigns are also acutely aware of their vulnerability to the growing scarcity of water, and to charges that they are guzzlers.

一些节水行动中最积极卖力的公司强烈地意识到了眼前的危机。 水资源的逐渐不足和公众对于用水过多的指责将对它们造成双重伤害。

4·The scarcity of surviving evidence gives Ms Sobel some poetic latitude.

现存证据的不足让索贝尔有了诗意想象的自由。

5·There were other puzzles: long-term interest rates ought to have picked up to reflect the scarcity of American savings and the concern about the dollar.

其它的疑问还有：由于美国的储蓄不足以及对美元走势的忧虑，长期利率应会出现升幅。

稀有性

1·Their cost has risen more than that of other power plants; their scale, complexity and scarcity make it hard to economise.

核电站成本的涨幅比其他发电厂更多；它们的规模，复杂性，和稀有性使得节约成本难上加难。

2·And scarcity is what they sell.

而他们所卖的正是稀有性。

3·It's paper that creates cost and slows things down and generates scarcity.

是纸，造成了成本，使事情变慢，产生稀有性。

4·In other words, the scarcity of goods is 29 causes humans to attribute value.

换句话说，商品的稀有性29。正是让人们赋予价值的原因。

5·In more and more industries, abundance thinking is becoming a far more powerful engine for commerce than scarcity thinking ever has been.

在愈来愈多产业中，丰富性的经济思维正逐渐超越过去的稀有性思维，成为更强大的商业引擎。

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