dearth
匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的
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- : an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack: There is a dearth of good engineers.
- : scarcity and dearness of food; famine.
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Examples
While the national team has a wealth of attacking players, many of whom are performing at high levels in Europe, there is a dearth of strikers.
President Barack Obama’s Administration inherited this unfortunate state of affairs, but the public bristled at the dearth of criminal convictions for high-level corporate executives in the wake of that financial crisis.
So steady has Beekman been this season that he has started seven games despite a dearth of experience at the college level.
As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, helping pregnant people navigate this dearth of research was part of Parchem’s job even before the pandemic.
I have friends who complain daily about the dearth of available dating options.
The Pentagon security reviewers must have been suffering a dearth of caffeine or sleep.
The FDA is hoping to remedy the dearth of knowledge with a plea aimed at influential drugmakers.
And the dearth of top Democratic visitors could have a real impact on down-ballot Democrats.
Like the people of Westeros, winter is coming and with it a dearth of Game of Thrones.
Despite the dearth of decent sex education, most of us could figure out what had happened.
She had been confined to the house a month, and there had been, as a natural consequence, a great of news.