Dearth

(noun.) an insufficient quantity or number.

(noun.) an acute insufficiency.

整理:罗威娜

• The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Two canine animals, in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But in the days of the Civil War there was a great dearth of skilful manipulators of the key. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Both countries, accordingly, though subject occasionally to dearths, have been famous for their great fertility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

编辑:陌莉