scarce

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈskɛəs/    美 /ˈskɛɚs/|/skeːs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
    — By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa.
  2. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
    — The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.
副词 adv.
  1. Scarcely, only just. archaic,literary,not-comparable
    — The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud.

词形变化

scarcer comparative scarcest superlative scarse alternative,obsolete scace alternative scarse alternative,obsolete scace alternative

词汇关系

近义词
geason infrequent raresome
衍生词
make oneself scarce nonscarce scarce as hen's teeth scarce chaser scarce copper scarcely scarcement scarcen scarceness unscarce
相关词
scarcity

词源

词源 1
From Middle English scars, scarse, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“scarce”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).
The standard pronunciation having the /ɛə(ɹ)/ vowel instead of expected /ɑː(ɹ)/ is due to a tendency for Old and Middle French preconsonantal /ar/ to be borrowed as Middle English /aːr/ that only survives in this word and dace in the modern standard, but is more frequent in Early Modern English and traditional dialects; compare Scots gairden (“garden”), lairge (“large”).
词源 2
From Middle English scars, scarse, from Old Northern French scars, escars ("sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor"; > French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“scarce”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”).
The standard pronunciation having the /ɛə(ɹ)/ vowel instead of expected /ɑː(ɹ)/ is due to a tendency for Old and Middle French preconsonantal /ar/ to be borrowed as Middle English /aːr/ that only survives in this word and dace in the modern standard, but is more frequent in Early Modern English and traditional dialects; compare Scots gairden (“garden”), lairge (“large”).
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