scarce

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a. 难得的, 稀罕的, 缺乏的

发音

UK /ˈskɛəs/
US /ˈskɛɚs/
AU /skeːs/
NZ /skeəs/
NZ /skiəs/
SCOT /skeɹs/
/skɜː(ɹ)s/
/skɑː(ɹ)s/
/ˈskeɪs/

词形变化

scarcer 比较级 scarcer scarcest scarcest 最高级

别名

scarse scace

教材释义与例句

形容词

缺乏的，不足的；稀有的

副词

仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    缺乏的

    By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.

  2. 2.

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

    The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Scarcely, only just.

    古体 文学

词汇关系

形容词

反义词 1

abundant

近义相关 2

tight rare

参见 4

stingy meager meagre scrimpy
副词

同义词 4

just hardly barely scarcely

相关短语

scarce copper scarce as hen's teeth scarce coppers scarce chaser scarce chasers make oneself scarce 悄悄离开 makes oneself scarce making oneself scarce made oneself scarce

词源

From Middle English scars, scarse, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“scarce”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”). The standard pronunciation having the /ɛə(ɹ)/ vowel instead of expected /ɑː(ɹ)/ is due to a tendency for Old and Middle French preconsonantal /ar/ to be borrowed as Middle English /aːr/ that only survives in this word and dace in the modern standard, but is more frequent in Early Modern English and traditional dialects; compare Scots gairden (“garden”), lairge (“large”).

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