scarcity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缺乏， 不足， 萧条，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general scarcity of everything, oc-casioned candles to be borrowed in a rather peremptory manner of Monsieur Gabelle; and in a moment of reluc-tance and hesitation on that functionary's part, the mender of roads, once so submissive to authority, had remarked that carriages were good to make bonfires with, and that post-horses would roast.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Selling straw to the peasants in times of scarcity of provender was what he might do, even though he felt sorry for them; but the tavern and the pothouse must be put down, though they were a source of income.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in these apartments that Mr Swiveller made use of the expressions above recorded for the consolation and encouragement of his desponding friend; and it may not be uninteresting or improper to remark that even these brief observations partook in a double sense of the figurative and poetical character of Mr Swiveller's mind, as the rosy wine was in fact represented by one glass of cold gin-and-water, which was replenished as occasion required from a bottle and jug upon the table, and was passed from one to another, in a scarcity of tumblers which, as Mr Swiveller's was a bachelor's establishment, may be acknowledged without a blush.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in the secret of the famous scarcity of grain, and laid the foundation of his fortune in those days by selling flour for ten times its cost.
-- This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first was the scarcity of girlsof marriageable age.
-- Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.
-- The rise always came, for with the increasing scarcity of necessities, prices leaped higher by the month.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that there is any scarcity of far better and more endearing and more accomplished girls than I am; not that I am much, but that they have made so much of me!'
-- He soon returned with the bottle of wine: which, according to the custom of the place, originating in a scarcity of corkscrews among the Collegians (in common with a scarcity of much else), was already opened for use.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to press his friend to join it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being so utterly idle, and his mind filled with the numerous predictions which had been made concerning the scarcity of labour this winter and the panicky state of the financial market, Hurstwood read this with interest.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a consider- able spell.
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