喜樂美語
  1. 1/skers/ · /skeəs/稀少的；缺乏的

    Scarce means there is not enough of something — it's hard to find or get, often because demand is high or supply is low. 'Jobs are scarce' means there aren't many available; 'scarce resources' means there isn't much of something important to go around.

    示範例句 · Example

    Water becomes scarce in this town every summer.

    逐字水在這個鎮每年夏天變得稀少。

    常見搭配

    • scarce resources

      有限的資源

      things like money, water or staff that there is not enough of

      The two departments were competing for scarce resources.

    • become scarce

      變得短缺

      to start being hard to get

      Tickets became scarce a week before the show.

    • a scarce commodity

      稀缺的物資

      a thing that is wanted but hard to get

      Soap was a scarce commodity during the war.

    • scarce supplies

      不足的供應

      a limited amount of something people need

      The villages share scarce supplies of clean water.

    意思相近

    in short supplylimitedsparsehard to findinsufficient

core核心畫面

同家族的字

比較級 scarcer最高級 scarcest

意思相近

in short supplylimitedsparsehard to findinsufficient

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Scarcename

  • 1

    A surname.

scarceadj/ˈskɛəs/

  • 1

    Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

    • By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
    • You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth.
  • 2

    Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.

    • The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
    • a region scarce of prey

scarceadv/ˈskɛəs/

  • 1

    archaicliteraryScarcely, only just.

    • The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud.
    • I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.

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