scarcity

We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself.(我们所面对的未来，很可能是核武器大国为资源短缺而战；而这种短缺大部分是资本主义本身的结果。)

Their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity.(他们的价格几乎完全靠他们的供不应求。)

Women's scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant—or even decreasing—disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.(在组织高层中，女性的稀缺可能只是代表了在连续层级中持续甚至是逐渐减少的劣势的累积效应。)

One reason for the scarcity is that there are fairly few women in management in Norwegian companies—they occupy around 15% of senior positions.(造成这种稀缺的一个原因是挪威公司管理层中女性相当少——她们占据了约15%的高级职位。)

Because of the importance of nutrients and their scarcity, nutrient recycling is one of the most significant eco-system processes that we'll cover in this course.(由于养分的重要性和贫乏性，营养循环是我们在这门课中会讲到的最重要的生态系统过程之一。)

Scarcity creates its own psychology.(匮乏就创造了相应的心理。)

In the wild, these birds store food for retrieval later during periods of food scarcity.(在野外，这些鸟会储存食物以备日后食物短缺时再取用。)

The pack of Lions exist in a world of Scarcity.(这群狮子生活的世界是资源匮乏的。)

"The scarcity claim lacks credibility," he said.(“粮食缺少的说法缺乏可信度，”他说。)

My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, "root of scarcity".(我的《1912年的农民百科全书》告诉我，“mangel-wurzel”从德语粗略翻译过来的意思是“稀缺的根源”。)

They'd been through scarcity before, and would always believe that something would turn up.