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To analyze economics, a hidden precondition needs to be satisfied: ethics is an exiguous resources, it must be optimized and assigned reasonably to maximize its avail.
对道德进行经济学分析，实际上隐含着如下前提：道德是一种稀缺资源，为了实现其效用最大化，必须进行选择优化和合理配置。
For many weeks I had been tweaking fetchmail rather incrementally while feeling like the interface design was serviceable but grubby—inelegant and with too many exiguous options hanging out all over.
我曾用几周的时间摆弄fetchmail，当时总觉得虽然界面还能用但是却不够漂亮，到处是用处不大的选项。
Here vegetation is exiguous, edaphic barren, drought little rain, natural disaster is frequent.
这里植被稀少，土壤瘠薄，干旱少雨，自然灾难频繁。

As some had been existing on the exiguous salaries paid by opposition parties to their advisers, this led to some obvious inequities.
ECONOMIST: Public appointments