| 正面 | 6871.scarce 英 [skeəs]美 [skɛrs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. lush 与 lax 同源，可以说 lush 就是由 lax "loose" 变体衍生而来。2. 由“蓬松”引申为“苍翠的，茂盛的”，又进而引申为“丰富的，豪华的，繁荣的”等含义。3. 该词的“酒鬼”含义应该是由 lush 的“多汁的；味美的”含义引申而来。在俚语中由最初的“美酒、烈酒”引申为“酒鬼”。4. short for lushious or luxury.5. 谐音“拉稀”------酒喝多了就会“拉稀”。adj. 缺乏的，不足的；稀有的adv. 仅仅；几乎不；几乎没有 例句： 1. In some places maps are scarce, and are often crudely produced.有些地方很少有地图，而且通常绘制得都很粗糙。 scarce 稀少的，不足的来自古诺斯法语 scars,稀少的，稀疏的，来自通俗拉丁语*scarsus 减少的，缩小的，过去分 词形式于拉丁语 excerpere,拔出，来自 ex-,向外，-cerp,拔，割，词源同 excerpt,harvest. scarcescarce: [13] Scarce comes via Anglo-Norman scars, earlier escars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus ‘picked out’, hence ‘rare’. This was the past participle of *excarpere, an alteration of classical Latin excerpere ‘picked out. select’ (source of English excerpt [17]). And excerpere was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and carpere ‘pluck’ (source of English carpet and related to harvest).=> carpet, excerpt, harvestscarce (adj.)c. 1300, "restricted in quantity," from Old North French scars "scanty, scarce" (Old French eschars, Modern French échars) from Vulgar Latin *scarsus, from *escarpsus, from *excarpere "pluck out," from classical Latin excerpere "pluck out" (see excerpt). As an adverb early 14c. from the adjective. Phrase to make oneself scarce "go away" first attested 1771, noted as a current "cant phrase." Related: Scarcely." |