| 单词 | paucity |
| 释义 | paucity (pɔːsɪti ) singular noun If you say that there is a paucity of something, you mean that there is not enough of it. [formal] Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination. [+ of] ...the paucity of good British women sprinters. [+ of] Synonyms: scarcity, lack, poverty, shortage Collocations: paucity of information You are left to imagine what the context might be, given a paucity of information. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Building on paucity of information in the text, at least three possibilities have been proposed. Christianity Today (2000) Why the paucity of information? Times, Sunday Times (2012) Yet despite that, and the relative paucity of dance, this was a genuinely diverting evening poised between the pensive and the percolating, relaxation and suspense. Times, Sunday Times Some scholars have taken the relative paucity of royal statuary to suggest that the royal court was losing the ability to retain skilled artisans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite the relative paucity of evidence and the dismissal of most of the charges against him, he was convicted on two counts of living off immoral earnings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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