scarce 的 2 个定义
scarc·er, scarc·est.
- insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
- seldom met with; rare: a scarce book.
scarce 近义词
insufficient, infrequent
由scarce构成的短语
- scarce as hen's teeth
- scarcely ever
- make oneself scarce
更多scarce例句
- The evidence is scarce, but since we don’t have more information, it’s better to be safe than sorry.
- The last year was the clearest example yet of what can happen when we allow stable housing options to become scarce.
- Larger stones are more scarce, but a larger stone is not necessarily more valuable.
- With vaccinations off to a rocky start globally, experts had been counting on a one-dose vaccine that would stretch scarce supplies and avoid the logistics nightmare of getting people to return for boosters.
- Food is scarce, and the rodents vigorously attack intruders from other colonies.
- Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.
- We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.
- In a country where food was already scarce, slimmed-down portions could be the difference between life and death.
- After two decades of war, even the most basic infrastructure is scarce.
- Food is becoming scarce, which has led to prices increasing beyond the reach of ordinary people.
- And the girl, scarce believing her good fortune, departed with a speed that bordered on the ludicrous.
- Fruit-trees are clearly too scarce, though Cherries in abundance were offered for sale as we passed.
- Scarce a day passed without some engagement in which the King of Naples showed his audacity and his talent as a leader.
- When very scarce, they may sometimes be found, although their structure is not well shown, by the method of Ruge.
- But the way was toilsome, the heat intense, and the water scarce—more so than it had been on the outward journey.