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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - In the past, the paucity of surveillance systems has meant developing countries have lacked up-to-date information on diseases.
在过去，监测系统的缺乏意味着发展中国家缺乏关于疾病的最新信息。 - In patients whose aspergillosis is refractory to voriconazole, a paucity of data exist to guide management.
很少资料可以用来指导治疗对伏立康唑不起反应的曲菌病。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - According to Mr Wolfers, the correlation was unclear in the past because of a paucity of data.
根据Wolfers先生的观点，因数据缺乏，故在过去，收入与幸福间的关系晦暗不明。