The noun of 'sparse' — the fact or the quality of being thin on the ground. You use it when you want to talk about the thinness itself as a thing: 'the sparseness of the data', 'the sparseness of the furniture', 'the sparseness of the population'. It almost always appears in the shape 'the sparseness of X'.

The noun of 'sparse''sparse'的名詞 the fact or the quality of being thin on the ground就是東西稀稀落落這個事實或特質 You use it你會用這個字 when you want to talk about the thinness itself as a thing當你想把那種稀少本身當成一件事來談的時候 'the sparseness of the data'「the sparseness of the data」 'the sparseness of the furniture'「the sparseness of the furniture」 'the sparseness of the population'「the sparseness of the population」 It almost always appears它幾乎都會出現 in the shape 'the sparseness of X'在「the sparseness of X」這個句型裡

This is a formal, written word — reports, research papers, serious journalism. In speech people simply say 'there wasn't much data'.

This is這是 a formal, written word一個正式的書面字 reports, research papers, serious journalism報告、研究論文、嚴肅的新聞寫作 In speech在口語裡 people simply say大家就直接說 'there wasn't much data'「there wasn't much data」

One thing worth knowing: writers sometimes use it as a compliment. 'The sparseness of his prose' means his writing is bare and stripped down, with nothing extra, and the writer usually admires that. So sparseness can mean a lack you regret, or a bareness someone chose on purpose. The sentence around it tells you which.

One thing worth knowing有件事值得知道 writers sometimes use it as a compliment作家有時候會把它用來當作稱讚 'The sparseness of his prose'「The sparseness of his prose」 means his writing is bare and stripped down意思是他的文字很精簡、去蕪存菁 with nothing extra沒有多餘的東西 and the writer usually admires that而且說這句話的人通常是欣賞這一點 So sparseness can mean所以sparseness可以指 a lack you regret一種你感到遺憾的匱乏 or a bareness someone chose on purpose或一種有人刻意選擇的精簡 The sentence around it它周圍的句子 tells you which會告訴你是哪一種

You may also meet 'sparsity', which is the same idea and is the form preferred in mathematics and computing — a sparse matrix, sparsity of data. Outside those fields, 'sparseness' is the more ordinary of the two.

You may also meet 'sparsity'你也可能遇到'sparsity' which is the same idea意思是一樣的 and is the form preferred而且是比較常用的形式 in mathematics and computing在數學和電腦領域裡 a sparse matrix, sparsity of data像sparse matrix(稀疏矩陣)、sparsity of data Outside those fields在那些領域之外 'sparseness' is the more ordinary of the two'sparseness'是兩個字裡比較普通的那個