paucity

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  • n.少量；少许；贫乏
  • Web缺乏；少数；小量

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Paucity
n.
1.
[sing]
~ (of sth)
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

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AllAll,少量少量,少许少许,贫乏贫乏,缺乏缺乏,少数少数,小量小量
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Given the paucity of public data in China, it is often hard for short sellers to prove fraud or to quantify its presence.
考虑到中国公开数据甚少，空头往往很难证实或量化公司的欺诈行为。
kǎo lǜ dào zhōng guó gōng kāi shù jù shèn shǎo , kōng tóu wǎng wǎng hěn nán zhèng shí huò liàng huà gōng sī de qī zhà xíng wéi 。
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2.
Markets might have treated this as evidence of a lack of imagination, or a paucity of profitable projects.
市场本应将其认作公司缺乏野心或是盈利项目的证据。
shì chǎng běn yīng jiāng qí rèn zuò gōng sī quē fá yě xīn huò shì yíng lì xiàng mù de zhèng jù 。
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3.
The paucity of advice on saying no is particularly bad when you consider how hard the word is to say.
有关如何说不的建议寥寥，当你思考这个词有多难说出口时，这种情况尤其糟糕。
yǒu guān rú hé shuō bù de jiàn yì liáo liáo , dāng nǐ sī kǎo zhè ge cí yǒu duō nán shuō chū kǒu shí , zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng yóu qí zāo gāo 。
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4.
But to truly get well, they'll need "much longer, '' he said, and there's " a paucity'' of geriatric psychiatrists.
但想要真正恢复，他们还需要“更长时间，”他说，老年精神病学家还比较“缺乏”。
dàn xiǎng yào zhēn zhèng huī fù , tā men hái xū yào " gèng cháng shí jiān , " tā shuō , lǎo nián jīng shén bìng xué jiā hái bǐ jiào " quē fá " 。
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5.
This has led to a failure to adopt modern informatics and software techniques and therefore paucity of chemistry in bioinformatics.
这导致了采用现代信息学和软件技术的一个失败，并因此在生物信息学中缺乏化学。
zhè dǎo zhì le cǎi yòng xiàn dài xìn xī xué hé ruǎn jiàn jì shù de yī gè shī bài , bìng yīn cǐ zài shēng wù xìn xī xué zhōng quē fá huà xué 。
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One of the roadblocks to understanding the molecular basis of hearing is the paucity of hair cells available for study, Heller said.
赫勒声称，由于用于研究的毛细胞数量稀缺，从而阻碍了他们进一步了解听觉的分子基础。
hè lè shēng chēng , yóu yú yòng yú yán jiū de máo xì bāo shù liàng xī quē , cóng ér zǔ ài le tā men jìn yí bù liǎo jiě tīng jué de fēn zǐ jī chǔ 。
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7.
Wells puts its relative capital paucity down to "purchase" accounting at the time of the Wachovia deal.
富国把它的相对资本短缺程度降到交易美联时的“购入”财务水平。
fù guó bǎ tā de xiāng duì zī běn duǎn quē chéng dù jiàng dào jiāo yì měi lián shí de " gòu rù " cái wù shuǐ píng 。
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But don't deceive yourself into thinking that great teaching or citizenship will make up for a paucity of published research.
但是不要自欺欺人，认为非常棒的教学或者人品会弥补哪怕一点点发表的学术研究。
dàn shì bú yào zì qī qī rén , rèn wéi fēi cháng bàng de jiào xué huò zhě rén pǐn huì mí bǔ nǎ pà yì diǎn diǎn fā biǎo de xué shù yán jiū 。
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Traditionally believed to be the site of King David's palace, it is a major tourist draw despite a paucity of evidence that he built there.
这里在传统上被认为是大卫宫殿的所在地，尽管缺乏相关证据，但前来参观的游人仍是络绎不绝。
zhè lǐ zài chuán tǒng shàng bèi rèn wéi shì dà wèi gōng diàn de suǒ zài dì , jǐn guǎn quē fá xiāng guān zhèng jù , dàn qián lái cān guān de yóu rén réng shì luò yì bù jué 。
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10.
Overall, the researchers say they were dismayed with the paucity and weakness of the existing evidence.
最后，研究者们提到他们为现有证据的缺乏和薄弱而感到沮丧。
zuì hòu , yán jiū zhě men tí dào tā men wèi xiàn yǒu zhèng jù de quē fá hé bó ruò ér gǎn dào jǔ sàng 。
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