China is a large agricultural country, also is a country scarce of natural resource.

中国是一个农业大国，也是一个农业资源相对匮乏的国家。

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However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.

然而，它们有实际的影响，因为它们导致了对稀缺资源的错误使用。

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This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.

这种训练没有效果，浪费了稀有资源。

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Now,a great deal of that is related to the competition over scarce resources, particularly water.

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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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In the forty-sixth chapter of Leviathan, a chapter we will read later, Hobbes wrote, "I believe that scarce anything can be more repugnant to government than much of what Aristotle has said in his Politics, " nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics."

在《利维坦》第，46，章，我们稍后就会读到的一章，贺伯斯写到：，“我就不信有任何,更令人反感的政府可以比得上,那个亚里士多德在其《政治学》中所描述，还有一大部份的《伦理学》更是无知至极“

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With fewer people trying to buy up the scarce resources of society the rate of inflation will slow.

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Right now there is little competition for the scarce resources of society, especially are primary resource which is workers.

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Resources are scarce because of the harsh environment of the highland plateau and limited agricultural space in the lowlands.

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