They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate.

他们关了这家餐馆，因为客流量稀少，经营亏本。

A big producer of carbon dioxide had to close its factories because of soaring natural-gas prices, which in turn led to warnings from the chicken industry about a possible paucity of poultry.

由于天然气价格飙升，一家大型二氧化碳生产商不得不关闭工厂，这接着又引发业可能出现家禽短缺的预警。

The astrolabe sometimes seems to have more personality than the monk, probably because of the paucity of biographical information available.

星盘有时似乎比这个修士更有个性，但也可能是因为关于修士的传记料。

Then there is the peculiar paucity of British “sanctions” imposed under an international bribery convention: two between 1999 and 2009, compared with 88 in America, 26 in Germany and 40 in Italy.

因此国际贿赂协议对英国的约束力就罕见的微弱，在1999年和2009年之间只有2项受到制裁，相较而言美国有88项，德国26项，意大利40项。

But because we don't have that many settlements — either because they weren't dug or because people are still living on them, we really have a paucity of evidence.

但是，由于我们没有那多的定居点——要是因为它们没有被挖掘，要是因为人们还生活在上面，所以我们确实缺证据。

The 2009 report exposing the paucity of African DNA in genome studies began spreading the alarm Rotimi had been sounding for years.

2009年的报告揭露了基因组研究中缺非洲DNA，并开始宣传罗蒂米多年来一直发出的警告。

Before Ms Goldin's research, many academics considered questions about historical gender pay gaps to be unanswerable because of a paucity of data.

在戈尔丁之前，许多学者认为，由于缺数据，有关历史性别薪酬差距的问题是无法回答的。

And a paucity of investments from young entrepreneurs means that these savers will have little choice but to accept lower rates.

而年轻创业者的投意味着，这些储户将别无选择，只能接受较低的利率。

Hence the paucity of exhibitions devoted to his art in what should be his year of years.

因此，在他所处的年代里，很少有展览专门介绍他的艺术。

Boosted by a paucity of campaigning because of covid-19, the 90-minute, ad-free event in Cleveland was watched by an estimated 80m, over half the electorate.

受到新冠肺炎疫情的影响，竞选活动寥寥无几，在克利夫兰举行的为时90分钟的无广告的活动吸引了8000万观众，超过半数选民观看。

When I needed services for my son, I realized the paucity of available help.

当我的儿子需要服务时， 我意识到可用的帮助太少了。

The same complaints of the paucity of land, hunger and degradation he heard everywhere.

他到处都能听到关于土地、饥饿和退化的同样抱怨。

Then we've had pretty much a paucity of assets.

随后，我们几乎面临产的局面。

The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.

这些黑色悬崖对所有为生存而奋斗的人的根深蒂固的敌意，最有力的暗示莫过于它们最外层岩架上的草丛、地衣或灌木丛的稀少。

There is this paucity of sleep because of this model of early school start times and I'll explain exactly what's happened there and what we've been doing to try to change that.

由于学校过早开始上课的时间模式，导致睡眠不足，我将详细解释这个问题以及我们为改变这一状况所做的努力。

They recognize that public trust is low, but more than that, the paucity of public trust provides a kind of handbrake on the uptake and use of AI systems.

他们认识到公众信任度较低，但更重要的是， 公众信任的缺为人工智能系统的采用和使用提供了一种制约。

Do you think there's a slight risk that some of them are more influential than they should be, given the paucity of people who are actual experts on LinkedIn?

你认为有没有一点风险，有些人在领英上的影响力超过了他们应有的程度，考虑到真正专家的数量其实很少？

Low-alcohol beer, once maligned for its paucity of flavour, is also in fashion.

度因味道寡淡而被诟病的低酒精啤酒也流行起来。

London, the equal of New York as an international food city, also has a paucity of Indonesian eateries.

作为与纽约齐名的国际美食城市，伦敦也缺印尼餐馆。

What is it that we are going to do to address the paucity of physicians in rural areas?

我们打算如何应对农村地区医生短缺的问题？