scarce是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 缺乏的， 不足的； 稀少的， 罕见的，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：
-- Then he began grumbling again: 'With your flying into the face of your own wittles and drink!I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct.
-- In the stone face over the great window of the bed-chamber where the 249murder was done, two fine dints were pointed out in the sculptured nose, which everybody recognised, and which nobody had seen of old; and on the scarce occasions when two or three ragged peasants emerged from the crowd to take a hurried peep at Monsieur the Marquis petrified, a skinny finger would not have pointed to it for a minute, be-fore they all started away among the moss and leaves, like the more fortunate hares who could find a living there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, you artillerymen especially are scarce there," said Katavasov.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Mr. Tozer valued it at one dollar and ninety, but the progressive Bert at scarce more than one-fifty.)
-- She whispered, scarce to be heard: "He would have been such a sweet baby.
-- He did not make them understand his mission; he scarce tried to make them understand.
-- Martin was scarce more blissful in his undisturbed work than in his life outside the laboratory.
-- The night before, Martin had scarce looked at their room.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have scarce had the pleasure of seeing you, Miss Wood-house,' she shortly afterwards began, 'since the party to Box Hill.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous tradesman, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it did you good to look at him; the man with something boyish in his smile, had suddenly sunk into his dotage, and had become a feeble, vacillating septuagenarian.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- White flourwas scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
-- The Yankee blockade about the Confederate ports had tightened, and luxuries such as tea, coffee, silks, whalebonestays, colognes, fashion magazines and books were scarce and dear.
-- Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, usedonly to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was at the mathematical school, where the master taught his pupils after a method scarce imaginable to us in Europe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And half a grain of reality, like the smallest portion of some other scarce natural productions, will flavour an enormous quantity of diluent.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
-- "In black distress, I called my God,When I could scarce believe him mine,He bowed his ear to my complaints No more the whale did me confine.
-- He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.
-- He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
-- But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plan-tation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too - for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
-- I was now landed and safe on shore, and began to look up and thank God that my life was saved, in a case wherein there was some minutes before scarce any room to hope.
-- Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to com-fort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
-- - Now I carried everything into the cave, and began to furnish my house, and set up some pieces of boards like a dresser, to order my victuals upon; but boards began to be very scarce with me; also, I made me another table.
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