scramble for supplies

基本解释

The price of cotton has vaulted above the key $1 a pound level for the second time in history as worries about a shortage of the fibre prompted textile mills to scramble for supplies.
出于对纤维制品供应紧张的担忧，纺织厂开始抢购棉花。这使得棉花价格历史上第二次站上每磅一美元的高点。
With UBS, an investment bank, predicting that the world's supplies of thermal coal, the sort mined in Indonesia, will fall 14m tonnes short this year, the scramble for assets is easy to understand.
投行UBS预计，今年世界高热量煤矿的供应缺口将达140万吨，印尼正是这种煤的产地，因此对资源的争夺就不足为奇了。

Oil companies sunk considerable sums into oil exploration, igniting a global scramble for new supplies.
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