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Paucity means there is less of something than you need — too little, or too few. A paucity of evidence means the proof is thin. A paucity of teachers means there are not enough teachers. It names the shortage, not the missing thing itself. It is a stiff, formal word. You will see it in essays, reports, and serious news, not in a text to a friend and not at the market. Though actually, even educated speakers often reach for not enough or too few in speech; paucity lives mainly on the page.
缺乏、不足（偏書面）
組成來自拉丁文 paucitas，來自 paucus（少、不多）。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
paucitynoun/ˈpɒs.ɪ.ti/
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Fewness in number; too few.
- But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
- For sheer paucity of railway facilities, probably the record in Great Britain is held by the Scottish county of Nairn, which has about eight miles of railway and two stations—Nairn and Auldearn.
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A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
- It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
- Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。