Now, paper money is not scarce, right?

现在 纸币就不稀有 对吧？

The price of sugar soars when sugar is scarce.

当糖缺乏时，糖价高涨。

In fact, water is always scarce in Botswana.

事实上，博茨瓦纳一直是缺水的。

Creatures are scarce because few can eat conifer needles.

这里缺乏生物的原是很有生物以针叶为食。

That bird has become scarce in this country.

那种鸟在这个国家已经很稀有了。

As such, information on his next project, Tenet, is scarce.

此，关于他的下一个电影项目《信条》的信息之又。

In college, time is scarce, and consequently, very precious.

在大学里，时间很，而且又非常珍贵。

Aid workers say clean water is scarce in remote health clinics.

救援人员说，偏远地区的卫生诊所缺水严重。

When sugar, coffee, and other foods were scarce, many people hoarded them.

当糖、咖啡和其他食物缺乏时，许多人便囤积它们。

But today, about 1 billion people are living in water scarce areas.

但是今天，大约有10亿人生活在水资源匮乏的地区。

Water is indeed scarce in many places, and will grow scarcer.

在许多地方水确实稀缺，而且稀缺的状况会愈发严重。

Low-status men and women would share fairly when water was plentiful, but were stingier when water was scarce.

地位低的男性和女性，当水资源丰富时尚能公平分享，匮乏时则吝啬得多。

So, why do we feel like time is so scarce? One problem is that our time has become more valuable and as time becomes worth more money, we feel like we have less of it.

那么，为什么我们觉得好像时间如此稀呢？一个问题在于，我们的时间已经变得更有价值了，而当时间变得值更多钱之后，我们就觉得时间变了。

Resources are a little scarce around here lately.

最近人手不太足。

Credit is also scarcer in most developing countries.

在大多数发展中国家，信贷也更为紧缺。

And I guess similarities with others are scarce when you are adamant that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the rest of the moronic folk that you share this planet with poke blankly refuse to believe you.

而我想聪明人和他人的相似之处很，为当你坚定地相信地球围绕太阳旋转，而与你同时代的愚昧的大众则全然地拒绝相信你的观点。

It's actually unknown how many people work on the Golden Gate Bridge at the time of construction because records were -- were scarce from that time.

由于记录缺失，建设金门大桥时桥上的工人数量至今仍未得知。

But then the cost of lumber sky rocketed, and good quality became scarce.

但随后木材价格飞涨，优质木材变得稀缺。

It can become scarce in certain parts of the world as we're seeing now in Cape Town, South Africa, a drought-prone city that's expected to run out of water this summer.

在世界的某些地方它可能会变得稀缺，在南非的开普敦，一个干旱多发的城市，这个夏天内预计将会耗尽水资源。

So, I really do want to make a few changes in the way that we upgrade our house. D. VAN DAM: We know that water scarce cities, water scarce locations, it's not a problem that's just going to magically disappear.

此，我真的想改变一下通过改造房子。D.范达姆: 我们知道缺水的城市，缺水的地方，这不是一个会神奇地消失的问题。