| 单词 | scarce |
| 释义 | scarce (once / 49 pages) adjadv If something is scarce, there isn't much of it around. Crops are scarce after a long drought, or you might find babysitters scarce if your kids are a nightmare to watch. Scarce, meaning “restricted in quantity,” can oddly be traced back to the same Latin word that spawned the word "excerpt." Use the word scarce when you want to say that something is hard to find or practically missing. When you know you’re about to be asked to do something unpleasant, like wash the dishes or take out the trash, go ahead and “make yourself scarce,” which means to be elusive or get out of there fast. WORD FAMILYscarce: scarcely, scarceness, scarcer, scarcest, scarcity+/scarcity: scarcities USAGE EXAMPLESBut while the prospects for hope are scarce there is, none the less, one thing from which we might draw solace. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Alone The participants must scramble as food becomes scarce in this new episode of the wilderness-survival series. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) But precipitation remains scarce in isolated areas, including some New Mexico mountains. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought Syn|Ant rare not widely distributed tightaffected by scarcity and expensive to borrow meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingydeficient in amount or quality or extent abundant present in great quantity abounding, galoreexisting in abundance ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful, richaffording an abundant supply copious, voluminouslarge in number or quantity (especially of discourse) easyobtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotousproduced or growing in extreme abundance thickabounding; having a lot of longhaving or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains" overabundant, plethoric, rifeexcessively abundant plentifulexisting in great number or quantity rampant(of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth rankgrowing profusely superabundantmost excessively abundant teemingabundantly filled with especially living things torrentialpouring in abundance verdantcharacterized by abundance of verdure amplemore than enough in size or scope or capacity richpossessing material wealth 2adv only a very short time before "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats Syn barely, hardly, just, scarcely |
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