It is the task of civilization to raise every citizen above want. --Charles Kingsley
人类文明有责任使每一个公民不虞匮乏。——巴肯
But in a recent six-year period, the number of low-and middle-income working families paying more than half their income for housing has increased76 per-cent.
一般认为，家庭收入花在住屋支出的比例不应超过三成，以确保其他生活必须费用不虞匮乏。
Hewlett-Packard Division Chief Uses Strategic Outsourcing To Stay Lean, Focused, and Competent." The Management Round Table.
〈惠普部门主管使用战略性的外包来保持精实，专业及不虞匮乏〉管理圆桌杂志社出版。
Waste not, want not" is her favourite maxim.
不浪费则不匮乏"是她最喜爱的格言。
“Waste not, want not” is her favourite maxim.
“不浪费则不匮乏”是她喜爱的格言。
"Waste not, want not" is her favorite maxim.
“不浪费则不匮乏”是她特别喜爱的格言。
Let him want for nothing.
不要让他生活上有什么匮乏。
boredom, vice, and need.
无聊、恶行和匮乏。
the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy).
局促不安的状态（经常是由于经济上的匮乏）。
There will be food shortage, water shortage, and space shortage.
将会出现食品匮乏、水资源短缺、空间不够。
Poor health and lack of money may both be barriers to educational progress.
身体不好与金钱匮乏都会妨碍学业的进展。
Food was scarce throughout the war.
在战争期间食物匮乏.
Industry is being starved of technical expertise.
工业界技术力量匮乏.
the shortages of wartime Britain
战时英国物资之匮乏.
Don't worry about scarcity: be rich in your mind. Don't worry about poverty: be your own master.
不愁物质的匮乏，但做心灵的富翁；不怕世间的贫苦，但做自在的主人。
In those days, food was scarce, and we had to fight with hunger.
在那些日子里，食品匮乏，我们不得不与饥饿作斗争。
We are still a blessed nation. No material shortage can touch the important things
我们依然是一个得天独厚的国家，重要原料不会匮乏。
The general scarcity of everything, occasioned candles to be borrowed in a rather peremptory manner of Monsieur Gabelle;
这儿物品普遍匮乏，大家便颇不客气地去向加伯尔先生借。