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Since Earth's plant species evolved to efficiently use scarce amounts of nutrients, today's gluts will generally kill them.

因地球上植物的己进化到让它们有效地利用最少的营养素来生存，而今天这种的过剩养分情况反而会至其死地。

In the past, when food was scarce, those who harboured such microbes would hae been blessed.

在过去，如果赶上食物不够吃的时代，肠子有这种细菌的人都是极其幸运的。

In the past, when food was scarce, those who harboured such microbes would have been blessed. These days, paradoxically, they are cursed, for the extra food seems to contribute to obesity.

如果过去食物稀缺，那么带有该等微生物的人是幸运的，但换作现在他们却是不幸的，因为过多的食物可能会导致肥胖。

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。

Atsushi Miura, an expert on the issue, says hostessing will be popular among Japanese women as long as other well-paying jobs are scarce.

三浦展，一位这方面问题的专家，说陪酒工作将在日本女性中越来越流行，因为其他如此高收入的工作十分稀少。

It shows that the good ship Gaia, planet Earth, is traumatising its passengers into husbanding its scarce resources.

这表明我们的行星——地球，这艘盖亚之舟，正在遭受那些持有它的稀缺资源的乘客的伤害。

It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovates greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived: for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some, and pairs other: and he that is helped, takes it for a fortune and thanks the time; and he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputes it to the author.

所以，如果人们在创新中以时间为榜样，那就好了；时间的确能不声不响地实现伟大的创新而几乎不被察觉（或译&几乎人不知鬼不觉&）。否则，任何新的事物都无人光顾了；何况创新的好处因人而异，大小不同；而谁得益，就认为是幸福而感谢时代；谁受害，就认为是错误并归罪于创新者。

Just as goods which are scarce become more and more expensive, so the vestiges of evil become ever more tormenting and finally unbearable, to the point where people suffer from precisely that which spares them from the other kinds of suffering.

正如匮乏的商品变得越来越昂贵那样，遗留的邪恶变得更加使人痛苦，并最终使人难以忍受，以至于人们因为从从其他痛苦解脱出来后感觉更加痛苦。

Acquaintance. The strongest motives, the most furious passions,fear, hatred, and resentment, are scarce sufficient to balancethis natural disposition to respect them: and their conduct must,either justly or unjustly, have excited the highest degree of allthose passions, before the bulk of the people can be brought to

最强烈的动机，最激烈的情感、恐惧、仇恨乃至怨怒，都不足以抗衡对他们自然而然的尊敬之情：在民众被唤起以暴力反抗他们，或想亲自目睹看他们遭到惩罚或废黜之前，他们的行为，公正也好，不公正也罢，无论如何都早已最大限度地激发出那些情感。

But for me that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but go on as I had begun for three or four Years more, and to have sent for the other hundred Pound from England, and who in that time, and with that little Addition, could scarce ha' fail'd of being worth three or four thousand Pounds Sterling, and that encreasing too; for me to think of such a Voyage, was the most preposterous Thing that ever Man in such Circumstances could be guilty of.

但我的情况却完全不同。我已在巴西立足，只要把自己的种植园再经营两三年，并把存放在英国的一百英镑再汇来，那时，再加上那点小小的积蓄，不愁不挣出一个三四千英镑的家当，而且还会不断增加。处于我现在这种境况的人，再想去进行这次航行，那简直就太荒唐了。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了