Countries that need oil are clawing at each other to lock up scarce supplies, and are willing to deal with any government, no matter how unpleasant, to do it.(需要石油的国家正在互相撕咬以锁定稀缺的石油供应,并且,无论这种事会多么令人不愉快,它们都愿意与任何政府打交道。)
Jobs are becoming increasingly scarce.(工作职位变得越来越少。)
We should find better ways to make good use of scarce resources.(我们应该找到更好的方法来充分利用稀缺资源。)
If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.(如果一个以上的物种竞争稀缺的资源,竞争的物种通常会转向不同的替代资源。)
I can scarce remember him.(我几乎想不起他了。)
In college, time is scarce, and consequently, very precious.(在大学里,时间是有限的,因此也非常宝贵。)
As economy is declining, jobs available to the young, continue to be scarce.(随着经济的萧条,年轻人找到的工作的机会变得越来越少。)
Food was becoming scarce.(食物越来越紧缺。)
Food was scarce and expensive.(食物匮乏而且昂贵。)
It was argued that once hunter-gatherers had occupied the whole world, the population started to grow everywhere and food became scarce; agriculture would have been a solution to this problem.(有人认为,一旦狩猎采集者占领了整个世界,世界各地的人口就会开始增长,食物将变得稀缺;农业本来是解决这一问题的方法。)