1. Tea and sugar were scarce and were rationed during the war.
在战争年代,茶和糖匮乏,均为定量供应。

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2. Math and science teachers are scarce, so if you have certification in either of those areas and you are right for the job, you can expect a quick hire.
数学老师还有科学老师是很匮乏的,因此如果你有这两方面的认证书并且你也想当老师,那你极有可能被录取。

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3. The Nile valley is not Silicon Valley, at least not yet, and venture capital is scarce.
尼罗河谷与硅谷不能同日而语,至少目前还不能;这里的创业资本匮乏。

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4. Yes, because markets are the best mechanism for allocating scarce resources.
是,因为市场是配置稀缺资源的最佳制度形式。

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5. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing.
你需要使你的整个团队能理解你正在优化的稀缺资源是什么。

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6. Processes own threads, memory, and other resources, and these resources now become scarce as the user load increases.
进程拥有线程、内存和其他资源,随着用户负载的增加,这些资源现在开始变得稀缺。

www.ibm.com

7. For many populations in the developing world, meat is scarce, and plants provide the primary source of both protein and micronutrients.
对于发展中国家的许多人群,肉是稀缺的,而植物是蛋白质和微量营养物质的主要来源。

www.scidev.net

8. Most of these guidelines are just plain common sense, whichseems to be a scarce commodity on the Web.
这些指导方针里的大多数似乎是网络上的稀缺物品,但却只是简单的常识。

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9. This can become a problem if these objects are holding on to large or scarce native resources.
如果这些对象占用着大型或稀有本机资源,就有可能导致出现问题。

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10. Life is a scarce resource.
生命是一种稀有资源。

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11. But credit is now scarce.
但是现在信用却不足。

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12. Since threads and processes are relatively scarce resources, applications that hold on to either one when they’re just waiting for input don’t scale very well.
由于线程和进程是相对稀缺的资源,考虑到它们只是等待输入,所以持有它们的应用就不会很好地伸缩。

www.infoq.com

13. In a world in which food is scarce, it is smart for an animal to eat when it can and store up the fat, and suicidal to pass up the chance for sweet fruit or fresh meat.
在一个食物匮乏的世界里,如果有东西可吃,动物就吃掉它,然后储存到脂肪里,不失为聪明的做法;相反,放弃进食新鲜水果或肉类的机会就等同于自杀。

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14. In a world in which food is scarce, it is smart for an animal to eat when it can and store up the fat, and suicidal to pass up the chance for sweet fruit or fresh meat.
在一个食物匮乏的世界里,如果有东西可吃,动物就吃掉它,然后储存到脂肪里,不失为聪明的做法;相反,放弃进食新鲜水果或肉类的机会就等同于自杀。

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15. Food and fuel were scarce in this region.
这地区食物和燃料都很缺乏。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

16. Physical capital is a scarce resource in rich and poor countries alike.
不论是在富国还是在穷国,物质资本都是一种稀缺的资源。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

17. City residents complain that migrant workers have threatened to take already scarce urban jobs.
城市居民抱怨民工威胁着本来已很紧张的城市就业机会。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

18. It was wartime and food was scarce.
那时是战争时期, 食物短缺.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

19. Scarce resources are socially valuable resources.
稀有的资源在社会上是贵重资源。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

20. Off-street parking is scarce and expensive in central parts of cities.
在各个城市的中心地段,不临街的停车场是不多的,而且收费昂贵。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

21. stock up on scarce items
购存稀缺用品

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

22. My uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly.
我的托比叔叔以难得的善良回报了一只苍蝇。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

23. Fuelwood is becoming too expensive to buy and too scarce to gather.
薪材日益昂贵和稀缺,既买不起又拣不到。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

24. The document that was current at the time of the version selection will be created as a version itself. Also, since disk space is hardly a scarce resource these days, it makes sense to create versions regularly, in case it doesn’t occur to your users.
这个文档在这个时刻也应该成为一个新版本。 另外,既然现在磁盘空间并不是什么稀缺资源,所以有规律地生成版本是有意义的,以防使用者自己没有定时保存。

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