Paper was scarce and expensive, so typically they drew the design onto a white tabletop.

纸又少又贵，所以他们通常把设计图案画在白色的桌面上。

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"Doctors are as scarce a resource as money is," he said.

“医生和钱一样少，”怀特赛兹教授如此说道。

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If more than one species is competing for a scarce resource, the competing species usually switch to different alternative resources.

如果一个以上的物种竞争稀缺的资源，竞争的物种通常会转向不同的替代资源。

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

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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“

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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！

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He is giving a talk "Water as a Scarce Resource: A Threat to Growth Targets in the East of England" to a Royal Town Planning Institute conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.

BBC: Water shortages could slow down investment in housing

At the end of our four-hour hike, Remo pounced into a dense roadside thicket to catch a scarce swallowtail, a butterfly noted for its brilliant blue and gold tail whose design mimics the head of a distasteful insect to ward off predators.

BBC: Switzerland��s valley of butterflies

Farmland is so scarce that a peasant with one acre is considered rich.

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