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.(我們所面對的未來，很可能是核武器大國為資源短缺而戰；而這種短缺大部分是資本主義本身的結果。)

Their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity.(他們的價格幾乎完全靠他們的供不應求。)

Women's scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant—or even decreasing—disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.(在組織高層中，女性的稀缺可能只是代表了在連續層級中持續甚至是逐漸減少的劣勢的累積效應。)

One reason for the scarcity is that there are fairly few women in management in Norwegian companies—they occupy around 15% of senior positions.(造成這種稀缺的一個原因是挪威公司管理層中女性相當少——她們占據了約15%的高級職位。)

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.(由于養分的重要性和貧乏性，營養循環是我們在這門課中會講到的最重要的生態系統過程之一。)

Scarcity creates its own psychology.(匱乏就創造了相應的心理。)

In the wild, these birds store food for retrieval later during periods of food scarcity.(在野外，這些鳥會儲存食物以備日后食物短缺時再取用。)

The pack of Lions exist in a world of Scarcity.(這群獅子生活的世界是資源匱乏的。)

"The scarcity claim lacks credibility," he said.(“糧食缺少的說法缺乏可信度，”他說。)

My Farmers' Cyclopedia of 1912 tells me that mangel-wurzel means, roughly translated from German, "root of scarcity".(我的《1912年的農民百科全書》告訴我，“mangel-wurzel”從德語粗略翻譯過來的意思是“稀缺的根源”。)

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