late 14c., from Old French paucité (14c.) and directly from Latin paucitatem (nominative paucitas) "fewness, scarcity, a small number," from paucus "few, little," from PIE *pau-ko-, from root *pau- (1) "few, little" (cognates: Latin paullus "little;" Old English feawe "few;" see few (adj.)).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. a paucity of information
信息的短缺
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. The paucity of fruit was caused by the drought.
水果缺乏是由于干旱造成的.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
3. Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination.