单词scarcity
n.: 缺乏；不足；稀少
网络: 稀缺性；短缺；稀少性
缺乏；不足；稀少:
if there is ascarcity of sth, there is not enough of it and it is difficult to obtain it
【经济学】匮乏,萧条
稀罕;少见
荒,荒歉,饥荒
缺货
〔林〕短缺
缺乏,缺少,不足
复数：scarcities
adj.+n.:
sudden scarcity
n.shortagelackdearthinsufficiencyscarceness
n.abundancecommonness
This scarcity may have been one reason that he didn"t intervene, as he might have been expected to, in Patty"s battle with Carol Monaghan.
他没有像大家所指望的那样去调停帕蒂和卡洛尔·莫纳亨之间的争拗，周末常常不在家或许就是原因之一。
However, due to the scarcity of human transplantable organs, many limits have to be set up in the application of organ transplantation.
但由于人体可供移植器官的稀缺，在这一高科技应用过程中不得不设定了一些限制条件。
Scarcity is at least as much about politics and power as overall supply.
资源稀少是既是供应问题，也是政治和权力的。
The delight of the children at the sight of some dish on the table showed that it was a scarcity.
孩子们一看到桌子上的菜时的喜悦表明，那是一种稀缺。
But at least having to adapt to both plenty and scarcity makes for a more versatile upbringing than one of remorseless overindulgence.
但至少，被迫既要适应丰裕糊口、又要适应捉襟见肘的糊口，比过着不知悔改、放纵无度的糊口更有益成长。
U. S. intelligence officials believe water scarcity is shaping up to be one of the main potential drivers of future global conflict.
美国情报官员认为，水源稀缺将形成未来全球冲突的一个主要潜在导火索。
And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias.
然而，存在一个场合，在这里经济学家与犯有“造作工作成见”罪的普通门外汉从同一角度谈论岗位稀缺。
The balance scales held by the rider to measure out the grain, and the very high price of the grain seem to indicate scarcity of food.
骑士手上拿的天秤是来衡量价值的，而食物出奇的贵代表了食物的短缺。
The word is externalities, a concept that holds that money is not the only scarcity in the world.
这便是“外部性”，该概念告诉我们，货币并非世界上唯一的稀缺性。
Struggle is hard, no matter how you paint it. But living in scarcity doesn"t have to be struggle. That"s completely up to you.
无论如何描述这种生活，苦苦挣扎都并非易事。但是，短缺的生活中，你也没必要感觉辛苦。这要取决于你自己。