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dearth

/durth/US // dɜrθ //UK // (dɜːθ) //

匮乏,缺少,贫乏,匮乏的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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 dearth of news.

  • The mills, with their dyes and dirt, are also responsible for the dearth of trout.

  • Great wealth cannot still hunger, but rather occasions more dearth, for where rich people are there things are always dear.

  • I have the honor to enclose the last gazettes, by which Congress will see the dearth of news in Europe at present.

  • A dearth of all sedentary resources became, when his youth passed away, his own constant reproach.