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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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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Why scarce resources?

为何研究稀缺资源？

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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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Economics studies how man interacts with the environment transforming scarce resources into products that enrich life.

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It must compete for scarce resources with the economy's need for food, shelter and myriad alternatives.

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