scarce resources

基本解释

Yes, because markets are the best mechanism for allocating scarce resources.
是，因为市场是配置稀缺资源的最佳制度形式。
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.
长期来看，我确信，也相信，我们看到的流量以及我们创建的社区是我们时间和稀有资源的一个更好的投资，与纯粹的量化搜索引擎来说。
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，在严格意义上的本地环境中，查询操作的多个分支/输入对稀有资源的争用实际上会降低性能。

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.
对霍布斯来说，生活是一次竞争或斗争,不是争夺稀缺的资源,虽然这也可能是斗争的一部分，而是为荣誉，为一个人的,价值和自尊而战。
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