scramble for supplies

基本解释

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.
出於對纖維制品供應緊張的擔憂，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預計，今年世界高熱量煤鑛的供應缺口將達140萬噸，印尼正是這種煤的産地，因此對資源的爭奪就不足爲奇了。

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