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(jià)格上漲。
The problem is accentuated by a shortage of water and electricity.
缺乏水電使問題愈加嚴(yán)重了。
Another is a shortage of land and freshwater for use in aquaculture.
另一個(gè)障礙是用于水產(chǎn)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?
但是為什么當(dāng)時(shí)的耕地會(huì)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(shí)期,停止了建筑行業(yè),那時(shí)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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