Dearth
[dɜːθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an insufficient quantity or number.
(noun.) an acute insufficiency.
整理:罗威娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
編輯:耶鲁
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Scarcity, insufficiency, deficiency, short supply.[2]. Need, want, lack, famine, short commons.
錄入:梅利特
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ABUNDANCE]
多琳校對
解釋/意思:
n. dearness high price: scarcity: want: famine; barrenness.—adj. Dearth′ful (Scot.) expensive.
校對:杜鲁门
例句/造句/用法:
- The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His letters, in the dearth of scientific associations and the absence of scientific periodicals, served as a general news agency among the learned of his time. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Two canine animals, in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But in the days of the Civil War there was a great dearth of skilful manipulators of the key. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Both countries, accordingly, though subject occasionally to dearths, have been famous for their great fertility. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:陌莉