There is an acute shortage of water.

水严重短缺。

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They face a desperate shortage of clean water.

他们面临无污染水源的严重短缺。

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There is a shortage of fresh water on the island.

岛上缺少淡水。

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Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

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And why should there be a shortage of farmland?

但是为什么当时的耕地会短缺呢

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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.

其一就是美国政府在战争时期,停止了建筑行业,那时他们已经快五年没有建造任何房屋了,显然,房屋资源是短缺的

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Cash is increasingly being hoarded precisely because there is a growing shortage of it.

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But Ben Broadbent thinks it is increasingly hard to put it all down to a shortage of demand.

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"We have massive supplies of salt, there is no shortage of salt, " he said.

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