dearth

大学 FREQ #39233

n. 缺乏, 粮食不足, 饥馑

发音

UK /dɜːθ/
US /dɝθ/
AU

词形变化

dearths 复数 dearths dearths 三单 dearthing 现在分词 dearthed 过去式 dearthed 过去分词

别名

derth dirth

教材释义与例句

名词

缺乏；饥馑；粮食不足

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

    可数 不可数 引申义
  3. 3.

    Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To cause or produce a scarcity in something.

    缺乏

    过时 废旧 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

shortage famine paucity

上位词 5

want lack deficiency scarcity scarceness

词源

First attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530) as well as the Coverdale Bible (1535). From Middle English derth, derthe, derþe, probably from Old English *dīerþ, *dīerþu, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþō (“costliness, preciousness, honour”); corresponding to dear + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Saxon diuriða (“glory, honour; preciousness”), West Frisian djoerte (“love, dearness, value, worth”), Dutch duurte (“dearness; scarcity, dearth”), Icelandic dýrð (“honour, glory”).

来源：wiktionary