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

长期干旱会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.

谷物匮乏造成价格上涨。

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土地日益匮乏，以旧方式养殖获得肉会越来越少，他“种”肉可以用来帮助解决未来全球粮食危机。

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.

在这个星球上，每年我们都会失去数以语言，我担心用一种通用语言可能会导致文化匮乏。

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.

一系列理由从我脑海中浮现，，在这一议题上，相关数据严重匮乏。

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说很对，但他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，在我们最信赖领导人身上，却那样匮乏。

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

但今天，大约有10亿人生活在水资源匮乏地区。

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

周一，特朗普总统在推特上两次试图平息人们对物资匮乏担忧。

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.

这被压抑消费需求和资源匮乏之间冲突结果。

Material want is not socialism, nor is cultural impoverishment.

物质匮乏不社会主义，文化贫困也不社会主义。

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，但也可能因为关于修士传记资料匮乏。

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，正规教育匮乏并未阻碍发展中国家劳动力在可预见未来持续提高生产力。

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

这在很大程度上因为资金匮乏。

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.

它经常把吃剩食物埋起来用作匮乏时期应急口粮。

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.

每年都有三万儿童死于营养不良。全球有三亿人收到疟疾影响。在全世界，我们能看到无数贫困问题，病痛问题以及资源匮乏导致科学信息不流通问题。

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

早，人们并不认为新加坡会成为如今超级大国，因为当时新加坡存在着资源匮乏和种族多元化问题。