在郊区，贫困导致缺乏生活必需品，如食物、饮水、初等学校和基本医疗保健。

In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.

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众多人缺乏生活必需品。

Large masses of people lack the necessities of life.

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他们的食物不易储藏，因而没有食物储备，常常极为缺乏生活必需品。

The food they use being little susceptible of storing up, they have no accumulation of it, and are often exposed to great privations.

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