a small amount of sth; less than enough of sth
a paucity of information
信息的短缺
1.缺乏,贫乏
2.少许,少量
1.a small amount of something that is not enough
1.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。
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。
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。
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”。
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。
6.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。
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。
8.Paucity of training is cited as one of the main reasons for the global nurse shortage.
据称，缺少培训是全球护士短缺的主要原因之一。
9.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。
10.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。