scarce

英 [skeəs] 美 [skɛrs]

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※ 提供单词"scarce"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

scarce 稀少的，不足的

来自古诺斯法语 scars,稀少的，稀疏的，来自通俗拉丁语*scarsus 减少的，缩小的，过去分词形式于拉丁语 excerpere,拔出，来自 ex-,向外，-cerp,拔，割，词源同 excerpt,harvest.

scarce: scarce: [13] Scarce comes via Anglo-Norman scars, earlier escars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus ‘picked out’, hence ‘rare’. This was the past participle of *excarpere, an alteration of classical Latin excerpere ‘picked out. select’ (source of English excerpt [17]). And excerpere was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and carpere ‘pluck’ (source of English carpet and related to harvest).
=> carpet, excerpt, harvest
scarce (adj.): c. 1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarpere "pluck out," from classical Latin excerpere "pluck out" (see excerpt). As an adverb early 14c. from the adjective. Phrase to make oneself scarce "go away" first attested 1771, noted as a current "cant phrase." Related: Scarcely.

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1. In some places maps are scarce, and are often crudely produced.: 有些地方很少有地图，而且通常绘制得都很粗糙。

2. Why is full-frontal male nudity still so scarce in films?: 为什么男性正面**的镜头在电影里还是如此少见呢？

5. Scarce water resources are shared between states who cannot trust each other.: 稀有的水资源被两个互不信任的国家所共享。