paucity
英 [ˈpɔːsəti]
美 [ˈpɔːsəti]
n. 少量; 少许; 贫乏
BNC.18824 / COCA.16637
牛津词典
noun
- 少量；少许；贫乏
a small amount of sth; less than enough of sth- a paucity of information
信息的短缺
- a paucity of information
柯林斯词典
- N-SING 少量；不足；缺乏
If you say that there is apaucity ofsomething, you mean that there is not enough of it.- Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination.
这部电影的结局可圈可点，即使这样也无法掩盖前一个小时想象力贫乏的缺憾。 - ...the paucity of good British women sprinters.
英国优秀女子短跑选手的匮乏
- Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination.
英英释义
noun
- an insufficient quantity or number
双语例句
- It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be taken into consideration? Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.
这是一种错误，不过，难道我们不应当去考虑他智力薄弱的一点？把虚荣加在一个智力薄弱的人的头上，是会发生各种危险的。 - Most households need a maximum of one lawyer; two constitutes an oversupply and can lead to a paucity of time, a surplus of money and a certain homogeneity in outlook.
在大多数家庭，夫妻中有一个人做律师就足够了，两口子都干律师会造成供应过度，可能会面临时间不够、钱有富余和看法有些类似的情况。 - Women in nonscience jobs earn just three-quarters the salary accorded those in higher-tech fields, and the paucity of female scientists helps explain the overall wage gap between women and men.
从事非科学工作的女性赚取的薪水，仅是高科技领域从业者的四分之三。女科学家的缺乏也有助于解释男性和女性之间的整体工资差距。 - There is a paucity of scientific research work in this field.
在这个领域中很少进行科研工作。 - Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination.
这部电影的结局可圈可点，即使这样也无法掩盖前一个小时想象力贫乏的缺憾。 - Their view is upheld by the paucity of reported cases where prenuptial agreements have been significant or successfully upheld.
在见诸报端的案件中，很少有婚前协议发挥了重大作用或得到成功支持的情况，这一事实也支持了他们的观点。 - Even so, expert opinion and Cochrane reviews do not recommend this practice because of the paucity of data regarding safety and resistance and the absence of adequately powered, multicenter trials.
尽管至这样，专家意见和Cochrane综述不推荐该应用，因为认为其安全性、耐药性和充分的可操作性的数据贫乏。 - But, as the European Central Bank recently observed in a fascinating report, regulators are finding it tough to assess whether the net risks are being handled sensibly, since there is a paucity of detailed counterparty data.
但正如欧洲央行（ECB）最近在一份极具吸引力的报告中所指出的，监管者发现，很难评估对净风险的处理是否明智，因为详细的对手数据存在不透明性。 - The paucity of data regarding the Udokan deposit makes understanding this system difficult in terms of Earth history events.
缺乏有关的数据，乌多坎的沉淀物不能顺应这种方式在长期的历史构成中。 - Companies often cite a paucity of domestic blue-collar workers as a barrier.
台湾企业常常说，本地蓝领工人不足是妨碍他们在台湾投资的一个因素。