scarce

英 [ske?s] 美[sk?rs]

反義詞

CET4TEM4考研TOEFLCET6中低頻詞常用詞匯

比較級:?scarcer;最高級:?scarcest;

scarce 稀少的，不足的

來自古諾斯法語 scars,稀少的，稀疏的，來自通俗拉丁語*scarsus 減少的，縮小的，過去分詞形式于拉丁語 excerpere,拔出，來自 ex-,向外，-cerp,拔，割，詞源同 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.

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

2. Why is full-frontal male nudity still so scarce in films?: 為什么男性正面全裸的鏡頭在電影里還是如此少見呢？

5. Scarce water resources are shared between states who cannot trust each other.: 稀有的水資源被兩個互不信任的國家所共享。