Prolonged drought can precipitate early marriage as families contend with scarcity.

长期干旱导致家庭因资源匮乏，从而促成早婚。

A dearth of corn caused the prices to go up.

谷物匮乏造成价格涨。

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

他相信，由于可以用来饲养蹄类动物的土地日益匮乏，以旧方式养殖获得的肉越来越少，他“种”的肉可以用来帮助解决未来全球的粮食危机。

Information is sparse. Rumours abound. Has Gamelin committed suicide? No.

资讯匮乏，谣言满天飞。甘末林自杀身亡了？并没有。

Every year we lose hundreds of languages from this planet, and I would fear that a universal language might lead to cultural impoverishment.

在这个星球，每年我们去数以百计的语言，我担心用一种通用语言可能导致文化匮乏。

A couple of different reasons come to mind. First of all, there's a real dearth of data in the debate. Let me give you an example.

一系列理由从我的脑海中浮现，首先，是在这一，相关数据的严重匮乏。

Walter was right and his words are all the more poignant at a time when many of us feel that character is lacking in some of the leaders we count on the most.

Walter说的很对，但他的话在今天看来也让人倍感辛酸，因为我们很多人发现，个性和品质，在我们最信赖的领导人身，却是那样匮乏。

But today, about 1 billion people are living in water scarce areas.

但是今天，大约有10亿人生活在水资源匮乏的地区。

Twice Monday President Trump tweeted to try to quell shortage fears.

周一，特朗普总统在推特两次试图平息人们对物资匮乏的担忧。

In the 1970s and 80s, LaI was studying soils in Africa so devoid of organic matter that the ground had become extremely hard, like cement.

二十世纪七八十年代时，Lal正在非洲研究土壤，那里的土壤有机物质十分匮乏，以至于地面变得极其坚硬，就像水泥一样。

Low-status men and women would share fairly when water was plentiful, but were stingier when water was scarce.

地位低的男性和女性，当水资源丰富时尚能公平分享，匮乏时则吝啬得多。

The result of the collision between pent up consumer demand and a lack of resources.

这是被压抑的消费需求和资源匮乏之间冲突的结果。

Material want is not socialism, nor is cultural impoverishment.

物质匮乏不是社主义，文化贫困也不是社主义。

The astrolabe sometimes seems to have more personality than the monk, probably because of the paucity of biographical information available.

星盘有时似乎比这个修士更有个性，但也可能是因为关于修士的传记资料匮乏。

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future.

但是，正规教育的匮乏并未阻碍发展中国家劳动力在可预见的未来持续提高生产力。

That is in large part because of a dearth of money.

这在很大程度是因为资金匮乏。

In the semi-arid lowlands of Mufindi, in southern Tanzania, water is hard to come by.

姆芬迪低地位于坦桑尼亚南部，属半干旱气候，水资源匮乏。

It often buries leftovers as emergency rations for leaner times.

它经常把吃剩的食物埋起来用作匮乏时期的应急口粮。

Malnutrition kills more than 3 millions children annually. Three hundred million people are afflicted by Malaria globally. All over the world, we constantly see the problem of poverty, illness and lack of resources impeding the flow scientific information.

每年有三百万的儿童死于营养不良。全球有三亿的人收到疟疾的影响。在全世界，我们能看到无数的贫困问，病痛问以及资源匮乏导致科学信息不流通的问。

In earlier times, little did the world know the superpower Singapore would become today, built on little resources and a diverse ethnic group.

早先，人们并不认为新加坡成为如今的超级大国，因为当时的新加坡存在着资源匮乏和种族多元化的问。