shortage of

基本解釋

The shortage of oil will probably drive prices up.
石油短缺很有可能迫使價格上漲。
The problem is accentuated by a shortage of water and electricity.
缺乏水電使問題瘉加嚴重了。
Another is a shortage of land and freshwater for use in aquaculture.
另一個障礙是用於水産養(yǎng)殖的土地和淡水資源不足。

Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.
And why should there be a shortage of farmland?
但是爲什麼儅時的耕地會短缺呢
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選
One of them was that the U.S. Government had shut down the construction industry during the war, so they didn't build any houses for close to five years; obviously we had a shortage of housing.
其一就是美國政府在戰(zhàn)爭時期,停止了建築行業(yè),那時他們已經(jīng)快五年沒有建造任何房屋了,顯然,房屋資源是短缺的
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選

Cash is increasingly being hoarded precisely because there is a growing shortage of it.
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