scarce resources

基本解釋

Yes, because markets are the best mechanism for allocating scarce resources.
是，因爲(wèi)市場是配置稀缺資源的最佳制度形式。
Long term, I am sure (and relieved) that the traffic we have seen and the community we are building will be a much better investment of our time and scarce resources than pure SEO.
長期來看，我確信，也相信，我們看到的流量以及我們創(chuàng)建的社區(qū)是我們時(shí)間和稀有資源的一個(gè)更好的投資，與純粹的量化搜索引擎來說。
In addition, in a strictly local environment, competition for scarce resources by multiple legs/inputs of a query operation might actually degrade performance.
此外，在嚴(yán)格意義上的本地環(huán)境中，查詢操作的多個(gè)分支/輸入對稀有資源的爭用實(shí)際上會(huì)降低性能。

Now,a great deal of that is related to the competition over scarce resources, particularly water.
Life for Hobbes is competition or struggle not just over scarce resources, although that might be part of the struggle, but for honors, for anything else that a person might value or esteem.
對霍佈斯來說，生活是一次競爭或鬭爭,不是爭奪稀缺的資源,雖然這也可能是鬭爭的一部分，而是爲(wèi)榮譽(yù)，爲(wèi)一個(gè)人的,價(jià)值和自尊而戰(zhàn)。
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