exiguous

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To analyze economics, a hidden precondition needs to be satisfied: ethics is an exiguous resources, it must be optimized and assigned reasonably to maximize its avail.
對道德進(jìn)行經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)分析，實際上隱含著如下前提：道德是一種稀缺資源，為了實現(xiàn)其效用最大化，必須進(jìn)行選擇優(yōu)化和合理配置。
For many weeks I had been tweaking fetchmail rather incrementally while feeling like the interface design was serviceable but grubby—inelegant and with too many exiguous options hanging out all over.
我曾用幾周的時間擺弄fetchmail，當(dāng)時總覺得雖然界面還能用但是卻不夠漂亮，到處是用處不大的選項。
Here vegetation is exiguous, edaphic barren, drought little rain, natural disaster is frequent.
這里植被稀少，土壤瘠薄，干旱少雨，自然災(zāi)難頻繁。

As some had been existing on the exiguous salaries paid by opposition parties to their advisers, this led to some obvious inequities.
ECONOMIST: Public appointments