scarce

1 Diego laughed, and I wanted to preserve the sound in a jar for the days when laughter was scarce.

2 He spent what scarce downtime he had writing songs or talking with Lydia.

3 Money, though not as scarce as at Trotter’s, was hardly in the supply hinted at in the letters to W.E.

4 Because supplies had become scarce after week two of the plague, Freneau had a hard time finding paper.

5 “We took what we could, but food’s been so scarce. That’s been gone for a while.”

6 And Antain would need yet another excuse to make himself scarce.

7 When souls came weeping to the altar he scarce dared to rejoice, remembering that soul who had not bowed, whose blood, it might be, would be required of him at judgment.

8 While circumstances around his death are scarce, sources told TMZ that no one found Colin until his friends returned home from their trip five days ago.

9 Adult eagles, which had been seen at 43 nests in 1957, were so scarce that he observed them at only 10 nests.

10 Real old houses are now scarce.

真正的古老房屋现在已经不多了.

11 When the El Nino rains changed the balance of nature and birds were scarce, he dined on mammals and iguanas.

12 With primordial black holes being so scarce, it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays.

13 It is not easy to deduce a conclusion the available since they are quite scarce.

现有事实数量不足,难以从中推断出结论.

14 Individuals within a species are constantly competing for scarce resources.

15 Fuel being scarce, and the Staniford Street house being draughty, I offered my services to a work crew in exchange for wood.

16 When there are people around, you'd better make yourself a little scarce.

附近有人时, 你最好避开一点.

17 Many argued that nations whose resources weren’t just limited but scarce had to make the best possible use of the little they had.

18 Even boys’ names—which have always been scarcer than girls’—have been proliferating wildly.

19 Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh.

20 But when paper and pencils became scarce, her shop closed.

1 匮乏的

lite starveling

2 罕见

rare exclusive exceptional infrequent unwonted seldom rarity out of the way uncommon recherché unique bizarre

3 稀有

rarity

4 稀少的

rare thin sparse exiguous

5 珍贵

own rare precious pearly rareness

6 不多的

few spare slender not grow on every hedge

7 简直不

scarcely

8 不足的

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient slender deficient wanting skimp stingy skimpy scanty scrimp scraggy scrimpy lacking lean defective pathetic scant pitiful meagre challenged penurious niggardly mal- poor incommensurate gappy low inadequate sparse meager exiguous bad limited slight failed faint marginal stringent measly depleted shy of

9 稀奇

unique strange singular curiosity

10 稀奇的

unique strange singular

11 短少

cutdown scantly wanting want be short of cut down on

12 刚刚

just only barely scarcely

13 难得的

lucky unusual distinct uncommon unfrequent

14 难得

rarely once in a lifetime lucky unusual distinct uncommon unfrequent seldom uncommonly

15 不足

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16 稀有的

rare as rare as hen's teeth far-between exceptional

17 短少的

cutdown be short of

18 才

just only fresh barely freshly scarcely

19 少

small low slim slender stingy incommensurate thin olig- dribble iota hypo- wanting a fat lot

20 罕见的

uncommon recherché unique rare bizarre infrequent unwonted peculiar improbable

21 少的

small low slim slender stingy incommensurate thin

22 缺乏

light void shy absent devoid scant destitute indigent scanty strapped penurious jimp scantly oligo- -penia need want short lack failure absence poverty defect deficiency scarcity insufficiency dearth paucity privation penury fail pinch starve fail of be taken short in defect close empty weak tired barren wanting stingy skimpy starved privative badly-off awanting out sparsely skimpily hardship famine deprivation destitution poorness be void of in want of run low be lacking in be hard up be short of in the absence of devoid of pressed for poor bare naked failed deficient barely default necessity deficit shortfall non- of strap to seek fall short in short supply lack for lacking pushed without be light on insufficient shortage bankruptcy a- shy of want for narrow miserable stringent drought strait defection short coming

23 罕有的

rare exceptional singular recherche unusual extraordinary uncommon infrequent

24 不寻常

different awesome odd exceptional striking unprecedented uncommon offbeat thumping unaccustomed out-of-the-way unwonted jolly far out

25 刚

scarcely

26 勉强

narrow forced reluctant unwilling unnatural strained loath grudging just moderately narrowly scarcely impose with a bad grace with bad grace by the skin of your teeth at a push

27 几乎没有

barely

28 稀少

rare thin sparse exiguous thinly scarcity few and far between at a premium

29 几乎不

just hardly scarcely ill not half barely

30 不多

few spare slender some few not grow on every hedge

31 缺乏的

light void shy absent devoid scant indigent scanty strapped penurious jimp close empty weak tired barren wanting destitute stingy skimpy starved privative badly-off awanting be short of thin poor defective deficient challenged bare naked failed insufficient shy of

32 匮乏

lite starveling want scarcity privation starve

33 不充足

lame scanty lamely deficiently

34 不充足的

lame scanty

35 珍贵的

valuable singular infrequent treasurable own rare precious pearly

36 不寻常的

different awesome odd exceptional striking unprecedented uncommon offbeat thumping unaccustomed out-of-the-way unwonted far out