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
- 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。 - Fuling is enjoying the first trickle of prosperity. Yet many other small cities across China's vast interior are still waiting for improved rail and road connections, while a paucity of decent low-end housing is a growing social problem nationwide.
涪陵正在逐渐繁荣起来，但中国广袤的内地还有许多其它小城市仍在等待铁路与公路网的完善，而低端体面住宅的缺乏，正日益成为全国性的社会问题。 - It is not a paucity of high-quality television.
眼下，高质量的电视节目不是太少，而是太多。 - In fact, if the paucity of database connections or the laggardly response of your database server is systemic, embedding one or more reverse proxies could beget widespread gain.
实际上，如果数据库连接较少或者数据库服务器的响应速度较慢是整体性的，则嵌入一个或多个反向代理可以广泛获益。 - 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。 - 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。 - Despite a paucity of data, one thing is clear, the UN says. The money that female migrants send back home can raise families and even entire communities out of poverty.
联合国表示：尽管缺乏相关数据，但有一点显而易见，即女性移民汇回国的资金，能使她们的家庭、甚至整个社区摆脱贫困。 - You would feel ashamed of your paucity of abuse and ignorance of that noble man compared with what Saleeby has collected on the subject.
跟撒里比在这个题目上所搜集的材料一比，你对那位高贵的人的毁访就会显得太无知，太贫乏，你应该感到惭愧。 - 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。 - Another reason for the paucity of data is the lack of disease surveillance in endemic countries.
缺乏数据的另外一个原因是，疾病流行国家缺乏疾病监测。