exiguity

1 He turned to find her dabbing her eyes with a couple of square inches of chiffon which, in spite of its exiguity, had smeared the powder on her face.

2 Its siege had been undertaken in the hope of its rapid termination, which the exiguity of its garrison and the impossibility of its succour rendered probable.

3 She might be drowned—but go she'll not Within a mile o' loch or sea; Or hanged—if cord could grip a throat O' siccan exiguity.

4 Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture.

5 His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.

6 Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport.

7 The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.

8 Its very exiguity proves that the male cannot remain underground; so soon as the chamber is ready he must retire in order to leave the female room to move.

9 In being of testing methods, accurately noting exiguity changes of permeability is very hard, and exists errors are difficult to avoid in artificially noting.

在现有的测试方法中，很难精确记录透气性的微小变化，且存在人工记录过程中难以避免的误差。

10 Secondly , I discuss the detecting method of the exiguity capacitance, and introduce the principle of the compensating for the te…

接下来，介绍了微小电容的检测方法以及温度补偿原理。

11 The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.

12 The strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame. 

13 Doubtless because of the exiguity of his organ, he found it necessary to stop the windows of his nose with his fingers in order to smoke.

14 He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe.

15 One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house.

16 The upper chambers are reached by a ladder-stair of extreme exiguity, so frail and narrow that one person only can mount at a time, and only then by bowing his head.

17 But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success.

18 Although the exiguity of the vessel forbids inclusion of all these stories, yet the Committee wish to record them as worthy of preservation under covers.

19 Thus it is observed that when such matters occur in other countries they become extinct spontaneously through lack of attention and exiguity of interest.

20 At present, in the field of floral genetic engineering, blue flowers have been the key factor in the study because of its graceful color and exiguity.

目前，在花色基因工程育种中，蓝色花卉因其色彩高雅、稀少而成为研究的重点。

1 贫乏

poor lean spare miserable meager tenuous pinched scanty Lenten poorly scantily sparely meanly beggarliness sterility smallness aridity spareness tenuity meagerness exility in bad circumstances lack for poverty-striken hungry barren sketchy washy sparing necessitousness poverty paucity sterilize

2 微小

minute fine slight slender miniscule stingy thousandth exiguous jerkwater minikin iota pettiness tininess exility

3 不足

under low short shy insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting scant skimp stingy skimpy scanty out less need want lack failure poverty defect deficiency shortage imperfection scarcity underage shortness insufficiency stinginess fail shortfall under- short coming

4 稀少

poor thin tight sparse infrequent exiguous infrequently sparsely sprinkling sparseness infrequency sparsity rareness scarceness fewness far and few between thin on the ground far between