英语词汇“scarce”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

scarce

(skârs)

adj. scarc·er, scarc·est

1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.

2. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops.

adv.

Barely or hardly; scarcely.

Idiom:

make (oneself) scarce Informal

1. To stay away; be absent or elusive.

2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.

[Middle English scars, from Old French scars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus, narrow, cramped, from past participle of *excarpere, to pluck out, alteration of Latin excerpere, to pick out; see EXCERPT.]

scarceness n.

单词	scarce
释义	scarce (skârs) adj. scarc·er, scarc·est 1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought. 2. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops. adv. Barely or hardly; scarcely. *Idiom:* *make (oneself) scarce* Informal 1. To stay away; be absent or elusive. 2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond. [Middle English scars, from Old French scars, from Vulgar Latin excarpsus, narrow, cramped, from past participle of excarpere, to pluck out, alteration of Latin excerpere, to pick out; see EXCERPT.] scarceness n.
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