shortages

Food shortages are no longer a problem.

食物短缺不再是个问题。

Food shortages are widespread.

食物短缺的情况很普遍。

Their health-care system suffers from queues, shortages and ropey equipment.

他们的医疗体系有很多不足：要排队等候，资源短缺，设备陈旧。

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization

但是我也曾反对一个观点，那就是：粮食短缺不仅会造成个别政府倒台，还会搞垮全球文明

Water shortages in the area will be the main constraint on development.

水资源匮乏将是制约该地区发展的一个主要因素。

Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places.

有些地方专业人员严重短缺。

For example, the United Nations Children'sFund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nino weather phenomenon in decades.

例如，联合国儿童基金会估计，几十年来，由于厄尔尼诺现象强盛，仅在非洲一地，就有大约1100万儿童面临饥饿、疾病和缺水问题。

Owing to staff shortages, there was no restaurant car on the train.

由于缺人手，这趟火车上没有餐车。

"How have the sanctions affected your life in Belgrade?"— 'Well. for one thing. we already have shortages.'

“制裁措施对于你在贝尔格莱德的生活有多大影响？”——“嗯，首先，我们已经缺乏物资。”

The shops are cashing in on temporary shortages by raising prices.

商店趁一时缺货而提高价格从中获利.

The bad harvest led to severe food shortages.

歉收造成食物严重短缺。

Food shortages will probably get worse towards the end of the century.

食物短缺的情况到本世纪末可能更加严重.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were

但是在两次世界大战期间胡萝卜的发展才获得了最强劲的推动，那时的食物短缺使得人们必须吃胡萝卜，而政府也开始宣传胡萝卜多么健康。

Lithuanians are waking up to a world of increasing shortages.

立陶宛人开始意识到物资日益匮乏。

At the same time, worldwide food and fuel shortages eased.

同时, 世界性粮食和石油短缺的现象终止了.

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

然而，在所有趋势当中，愈演愈烈的水资源短缺带来的威胁最为直接。

'How have the sanctions affected your life in Belgrade?' — 'Well, for one thing, we already have shortages.'

“制裁措施对于你在贝尔格莱德的生活有多大影响？”——“嗯，首先，我们已经缺乏物资。”

Staff shortages were worsened by the flu epidemic.

由于流感，职员短缺的情况更加严重了。

Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.

由于原料短缺，员工们已将近一个月无事可做。

The problems were compounded by severe food shortages.

严重的食物短缺使问题进一步恶化。

The dry summer has magnified the problem of water shortages.

干燥的夏季加剧了缺水的问题。

The city is now relatively quiet but there's palpable anger as people cope with shortages.

现在这座城市比较安静，但却因物资匮乏而明显充斥着怒气。

food/housing/water shortages

食物 / 住房 / 用水短缺

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

然而，我也曾反对过这一观点:食物短缺不仅会削弱各国政府，而且会瓦解全球文明。

Good weather leading to good grain harvests should win the country relief from food shortages.

能带来粮食丰收的好天气应该可以让该国的缺粮状况得到缓解。

Food shortages forced many townspeople into the country to grow their own food.

食物短缺迫使很多市民到农村自己种粮食。

The oil shortages could lead the government to raise prices before the New Year.

石油短缺有可能导致政府在年前提高油价。

Food shortages often occur in time of war.

在战争期间常常发生粮食短缺的情形.

Winter is setting in and the population is facing food and fuel shortages.

冬天即将到来，人们将面临食物和燃料的短缺。

Oil shortages have brought on an energy crisis.

石油短缺已经造成了能源危机。