| 释义 | 
		scarcityscar‧ci‧ty /ˈskeəsəti $ ˈsker-/ noun [singular]    - The scarcity of medical supplies was becoming critical.
 
 - An independence based upon an abundance of goodwill may be found even where there are scarcities in power resources.
 - Further, the justification that channel scarcity requires the government to regulate the content of broadcasting no longer exists.
 - Moreover, they suffer from a scarcity of books, and from pedagogical methods that rely on the memorization of class lectures.
 - The debate about the depletion of the ozone layer has been so far hampered by a scarcity of data.
 - The world is entering a period of protein scarcity, the report says.
 
    a situation in which there is not enough of something  SYN  lackscarcity of  the scarcity of employment opportunities  |