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| 1. | Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain. There was no quinine and no iodine at all. |
| 当时麻醉药很难弄到，只有做重大的截肢手术时才使用，鸦片也变得十分珍贵，只好用来减轻对垂死者的折磨，而不能当缓解生者痛苦的良药，奎宁和碘酒已根本无货。 |
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| 2. | When you start laying off bricklayers, things really are bad. Ten months ago, you could have offered the moon for them, they were so scarce. |
| 现在你们也开始裁减砌砖工人，这说明目前经济情况不妙了。10个月前砌砖工人奇缺，你非得出大价钱才雇得到。 |
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| 3. | Economists tend to view a competitive or free market as the preferred means of allocating scarce resources in an "efficient" manner, that is, so as to maximize the total value of production. |
| 经济学家倾向于把一个竞争和自由的市场，当成一个以“有效”的方式分配稀有资源的一种理想方法。 也就是说，目的是为了把产品的全部价值极限化。 |
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| 4. | Rain in that district is so scarce that several years often go by without a single drop. |
| 那一地区雨水非常稀少，往往几年不下一滴雨。 |
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| 5. | I made sure, of course, that I should be taken; but I was so distressed for want of water, that I scarce knew whether to be glad or sorry at the thought; |
| 我当然知道自己有可能被抓住，但我实在是渴坏了，几乎无法判断被抓住究竟是好事还是坏事。 |
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| 6. | One important reason that gold is so valuable is that it is scarce. |
| 金子为什么如此值钱的一个最重要原因，就是因为金子非常稀少。 |
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| 7. | Ralph Whitehead, a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts, said it may reflect the continuing discussion about American values and morality, or it may indicate that integrity itself is becoming so scarce, its definition is unfamiliar. |
| 马萨诸塞大学的新闻学教授拉尔夫·特黑德说，这也许反映了美国人长期以来有关价值观和道德观的争论，也可能意味着当今社会“正直”正在日益减少，它的定义被淡忘了。 |
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| 8. | He's in a bad mood, so I'll make myself scarce. |
| 他情绪不好, 我得躲着点. |
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| 9. | So rich and fleecy were the outlines of the forest, that scarce an opening could be seen. |
| 远远望去，林木茂密青翠，见不到一角空地。 |
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| 10. | White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles. |
| 白面极贵又很难买到，因此普遍以玉米面包代替饼干、面包卷和蛋糕。 |
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