in short supply

基本解释

This means that using their results to say anything of practical import needs care and caveats, both of which can often be in short supply, or stripped out to make a point.
这意味着赋予它们的结论现实意义时，需要小心和注意。不过这两点经常是供应不足或是因为特别重视某一事情而忽略。
Mr Young’s account is partisan, if tempered by a reluctant acceptance that Lebanon’s curse, sectarianism, has also proved a shield for individual freedom in a region where this is in short supply.
杨的作品有鲜明的个人看法，即如果退一步，也可以牵强地说，黎巴嫩祸端——宗派主义也为自由在中东这个缺乏个人自由的地方提供了某种保护。
Oil was not in short supply and stocks were increasing.
石油并没供应短缺，库存也还不断在增加。

She says non-food items, such as tents,cook sets, mosquito nets and blankets are in short supply.
In the past few months, the cost of wheat and sugar has more than doubled they say, and cooking gas, in constant short supply, can cost three times as much as it did a few months ago.

So at a time when jobs are in short supply, building exports is an imperative.
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So is the cardboard-box industry, as its basic input, used cardboard, is now in short supply.
ECONOMIST: The rising price of cardboard