More recently, European banks, Asian companies and wealthy collectors have moved in, pushing up prices; and museums and foundations have bought instruments for posterity, creating a scarcity.

最近，欧洲银行，亚洲公司和富有的收藏家纷纷加入这一行列，抬高了价格；博物馆和基金会为后人瞻观而购置乐器，使其更为稀缺。

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However, with creating abundant material wealth, mankind fined that the water resource scarcity is becoming a perplexed global problem.

然而，随着人类创造了丰富的物质财富的同时，水资源的严重缺乏正逐渐成为困扰全球的世界性问题。

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There is a strong case to be made that most credential programs create an unnecessary barrier to entry in many fields, raising the wages of incumbent professionals by creating a false scarcity of workers.

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It could also be that the Hollywood hype machine is creating a sense of scarcity.

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Over the last ten years the price of oil has spiked thanks to a weak dollar, thus creating the illusion of scarcity despite abundant global supplies of what is a rather prosaic commodity.

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