音标:[skɑ:s] ; 柯林斯词典等级:2 级;
a. 难得的, 稀罕的, 缺乏的
a. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
词型变化:形容词比较级 : scarcer ; 形容词最高级 : scarcest
考试类型:[四级/六级/考研/托福/IELTS]
词性分布:
形容词93%
副词7%

scarce的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. Food and fuel were scarce in this region.这地区食物和燃料都很缺乏。
  2. Firewood is scarce in many parts of the world.世界上很多地区都缺乏木材。
  3. Food commands a higher price when it is scarce.食物(供应)不足时,售价较高。
  4. As Singapore is a small island, land is scarce.新加坡是一个小岛,土地稀有。
  5. Good fruit is scarce in winter and costs a lot.好的水果冬天难得见到,而且价格昂贵。
用作副词(adv.)
  1. I could scarce believe my eyes.我几乎不敢相信自己的眼睛。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)
用作表语S+be+~
  1. The food was scarce during the war.战爭期间食物短缺。

常用短语

用作形容词(adj.)
make oneself scarce
    〈口〉走开,溜走go away; avoid others

词汇搭配

  • make oneself scarce溜走
  • scarce metal稀有金属
  • scarce resources稀缺资源
  • scarce currency稀有货币, 稀少货币...
  • scarce goods稀缺商品
  • scarce of缺乏
  • scarce currency clause国际货币基金协定关于...
  • scarce commodity稀缺商品

经典引文

  • Stocks fell..the exchange turned, money became scarce.

    出自:Disraeli
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0831
aberrant behavior
anti-biological warfare
antizymes
auto-lumbomassage
be barred from
bioscientists
biotin complex of yeast
bipolarmos
black rots
body surfing
bowl vent valve
butenafine
certificate on progress
class or representative action
combining characters
common lead method
cospace
delugeth
description of forest
Diclinixin
diffuse tissue
diphasic strain
Diplosporium
direct dialing-in
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
don't rush me
epidemic encephalitis
ethnoculturally
exponential time base
fact-checkers
feudal rush
fiorinia linderae
Fuck it all!
Geluwe
golden image
Gorelovka
guayule rubber (fer-thenium argentum)
Hall angular displacement transducer
harlon
Hassidic
high magnification
high pressure jet
homograft reaction
hot air distributor
IAAG
It never rains but it pours
Ivdel'
left averted photography
look through the fingers at
louzeiro
lower tail coverts
market body
mcilvaine
metaperceptual
Meyer's organ
national labor relations act
nonextended address space
Novadel
nutritional agents
orthopraxy
Ottawa R.
overvolted
Pambula
pathogenic dryness
pernio bullosus
photographic mapping
pissane
potassium phosphate,tribasic
previvation
Priupskiy
pulverized fuel line
ralph bunches
range octagon
rare earth doped glasses
reduced inspection
relations
representation of plans
reserve factor
reset router
reticulated veins
retrospective
root bend test
S. G.
solid state power amplifier
spectral projector
staurolite kyanite subfacies
steel pipe pile
string together
STX
take sb in tow
telluric method
the lid
translate
turbine locomotive
tyre inflator
value voter
valve three way
VITC
wind egg
withered zone
wordmongers