scramble for supplies

基本解釋

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.
出于對纖維制品供應(yīng)緊張的擔(dān)憂，紡織廠開始搶購棉花。這使得棉花價格歷史上第二次站上每磅一美元的高點。
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預(yù)計，今年世界高熱量煤礦的供應(yīng)缺口將達140萬噸，印尼正是這種煤的產(chǎn)地，因此對資源的爭奪就不足為奇了。

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