1. This confusion has been exacerbated by a paucity of serious attempts to synthesize and evaluate available data on the details of avian and dinosaurian evolution. 由于缺乏认真的尝试来综合和评估鸟类和恐龙进化细节的现有数据，这种混乱变得更加严重。
2. Even the film's impressive finale can't hide the first hour's paucity of imagination. 这部电影在开头一个小时中毫无想象力，即使有个让人印象深刻的结局也无法掩盖这个缺憾。
3. Many policy makers insist that consumer spending is a strong economic catalyst and, therefore, a paucity of retail stores is a contributing factor to low-performing economies. 许多政策制定者坚持认为，消费者支出是一个强大的经济催化剂，因此，零售商店稀缺是经济表现不佳的一个促成因素。
4. The paucity of known extinctions or disruptions resulting from indirect interactions may reflect not the infrequency of such mishaps but rather the failure to look for or to detect them. 间接相互作用导致的已知物种灭绝或破坏的情况的稀少，反映的或许不是这种灾难的罕见，而是没有去寻找或检测它们。
5. The paucity of fruit was caused by the drought. 水果缺乏是由于干旱造成的。
