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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Analysts at Fortis Bank said in a recent report: We are becoming more concerned that the scope for production growth is reaching some upper limits, constrained by the paucity of geographic locations suitable for cocoa production.
富通银行（FortisBank）分析师在最近的一份报告中称：我们越来越担心产量增长空间正接近上限，因为适合种植可可豆的地区很少。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。