Real Venetians have become scarce and many say the city is fast becoming nothing but a tourist destination.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Look at line 119: Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs!"

看一下第119行：,妄言之口！他们甚至不知如何掌控,愚钝之人，从未经受过学识的洗礼,文艺只属于虔诚的牧人！

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Well, I ran the risk and even now, it's what people look scarce I don't care.

我冒了那个险,知道现在，研究这些的人还是少之又少,我并不在乎别人的看法。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Rivers are drying up, grazing land for cattle is scarce, and the dry soil is hard to farm.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

When he laughed, was witty, in a merry humor, one could scarce sees his eyes, and by and by, when he was serious and positive, he opened his eyes round.

当他笑时，他是睿智的，带有令人愉快的幽默，都看不见他的眼睛了，不一会儿，他变得严肃和积极了，便圆睁着眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now,a great deal of that is related to the competition over scarce resources, particularly water.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Hair cells that are inside your brain are very scarce.

毛细胞非常稀少。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

But food and water are scarce after armed looters raided stores of supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Community leaders say donating basic goods like milk powder and aspirin, which can be scarce in Cuba, has a major impact for Cuban families struggling to survive under Communist rule.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Life is a scarce resource.

生命是一种稀有资源。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Life for Hobbes is competition or struggle not just over scarce resources, although that might be part of the struggle, but for honors, for anything else that a person might value or esteem.

对霍布斯来说，生活是一次竞争或斗争,不是争夺稀缺的资源,虽然这也可能是斗争的一部分，而是为荣誉，为一个人的,价值和自尊而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the forty-sixth chapter of Leviathan, a chapter we will read later, Hobbes wrote, "I believe that scarce anything can be more repugnant to government than much of what Aristotle has said in his Politics, " nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."

在《利维坦》第，46，章，我们稍后就会读到的一章，贺伯斯写到：，“我就不信有任何,更令人反感的政府可以比得上,那个亚里士多德在其《政治学》中所描述，还有一大部份的《伦理学》更是无知至极“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We can think about this in an evolutionary way, as I've alluded to a lot, but if you think about it from a completely Darwinian point of view, and you think about these food conditions where food would be scarce in ancient times.

我们可以从生物演化的角度来看这个问题,我已经提到过很多了,但是如果你完全从达尔文学说的角度思考,从食品条件想想,在古代,哪里可能出现食物短缺

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选