shortage/absence/lack/want.导航词义：短缺

1. shortage:n. 缺少，短缺.指供小于求，即达不到需要或规定的数量。

There is no shortage of funds.

资金并不缺乏。

The bad harvest led to severe food shortages.

歉收造成食物严重短缺。

The war was lost because of a shortage of munitions.

战争因军火不足而失败。

2. absence:n. 缺乏；缺席.指某物根本不存在或完全短缺，也指某人未在现场。

in the absence of evidence

缺乏证据

She noticed the absence of illustrations in the dictionary.

她发现那本词典里没有插图。

Please take care of my mother during my absence.

我不在时，拜托你照看我的母亲。

3. lack:n. 缺乏，不足.普通用词，指完全没有或不够充足，通常用于抽象事物。

Hard work can often make up for a lack of ability.

努力工作常可弥补能力的不足。

His lack of money kept him from going to the concert.

他因缺钱不能去听音乐会。

Lack of time prevented me from writing to my parents.

由于没有时间，我没能给父母写信。

4. want:n. 缺乏，匮乏.指完全没有或短缺某物，强调所缺之物是必需的东西，使用范围比lack 要窄一些；也指因没有食物、钱等造成的贫困。

My son's always in want of money.

我儿子总是缺钱。

The kids are unhappy for want of love.

这些孩子因为缺乏爱而不幸福。

Many families are suffering from want.

许多家庭正遭受着贫困。

全部

1·There is an acute shortage of water.

水严重短缺。《牛津词典》

2·Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.

越南正遭受食品短缺之苦。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·They face a desperate shortage of clean water.

他们面临无污染水源的严重短缺。《牛津词典》

4·There is a shortage of fresh water on the island.

岛上缺少淡水。《牛津词典》

5·Spending too much now will mean a shortage of cash next year.

现在花销太多就意味着明年现金短缺。《牛津词典》

6·Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.

制造业受燃料短缺的影响最为严重。《牛津词典》

7·A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief.

资金短缺使得联合国无法监督救济工作。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·For sure, there is little shortage of eye-popping scenery around here.

可以肯定的是，这里不缺乏令人着迷的景象。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·The country experienced a foreign currency shortage for several months.

这个国家经历了几个月的外汇短缺。《牛津词典》

10·The shortage of good stock has kept some investors away from the stock exchange.

优质股票的缺乏使得一些投资者远离股票交易。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

短缺

1·There is an acute shortage of water.

水严重短缺。《牛津词典》

2·Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.

越南正遭受食品短缺之苦。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·They face a desperate shortage of clean water.

他们面临无污染水源的严重短缺。《牛津词典》

4·Spending too much now will mean a shortage of cash next year.

现在花销太多就意味着明年现金短缺。《牛津词典》

5·Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.

制造业受燃料短缺的影响最为严重。《牛津词典》

不足

1·During the aspectant struggle with the foreign capital magnate, lots of shortage in the local retail trade exposed.

本土零售企业在与外资巨头面对面的交锋中暴露出了许多不足。

2·Another is a shortage of land and freshwater for use in aquaculture.

另一个障碍是用于水产养殖的土地和淡水资源不足。

3·There is no shortage of questions you could add to this, but I find this initial set is enough to distinguish those who genuinely care about their customers.

这些问题没有可以再增加的不足，但我发现这些最原处的设置足以够区分出谁真心关心他们的顾客了。

4·The operating system's virtual memory subsystem allows applications to allocate more memory than actually exists on the system, with the shortage being made up by temporary storage on disk.

操作系统的虚拟内存子系统允许应用程序分配的内存超过系统上实际存在的内存量，不足的部分由磁盘上的临时存储组成。

5·While Donsco managed to keep its doors open, many of its U.S. rivals shut down, so there's now a shortage of capacity.

当登斯科设法开门营业时，它的许多美国同行都已关门大吉了。 所以才有了登斯科现在的产能不足。

缺乏

1·There'll never be a shortage of people who consider themselves uniquely qualified to be president of the United States.

从不缺乏那种自认为特有资格成为美国总统的人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·But, as my investigation uncovered, the shortage of legal donors means that such a trade already secretly exists.

但是，正如我的调查发现的，合法捐助者的缺乏，表明这样的交易已经秘密存在。

3·The reasons often cited for entrepreneurial reluctance in Britain include fear of failure, lack of finance and a shortage of suitable projects.

在英国创业艰难往往是英国人创业少的原因，其中包括：害怕失败，缺乏资金及缺乏合适的项目。

4·We have to give up our project for shortage of funds.

因资金缺乏我们不得不放弃原方案。

5·The shortage of silicon that has bedevilled the solar-panel industry will ease, only to be replaced by bottlenecks in other areas, such as turning the silicon into wafers and ingots.

太阳能板工业受硅材料缺乏所困的情况将会减轻，取而代之，却会在其他方面面临瓶颈，例如将硅材料做成硅锭和硅片。

紧缺

1·The shortage of teachers is tied up with the issue of pay.

师资紧缺和工资问题有密切联系。

2·Given China's large population, selective birth in so-called lucky years may worsen the existing shortage of social resources, including education and employment.

中国人口众多，选在所谓的‘幸运年’生孩子将会进一步加剧教育、就业等社会资源的紧缺问题。

3·Authorities are currently in drought-stricken areas making all-out efforts, including using new technology and irrigation equipment to alleviate the water shortage and fight against the drought.

目前，旱情严重的各个省份都在全力以赴，使用新的技术和灌溉设备等缓解水源紧缺，抗击干旱。

4·However, most of these start-ups will struggle to obtain the loans they need to grow, thanks to the shortage of credit amid the detox of the financial system.

然而，由于财政系统危机中的贷款紧缺，大部分白手起家公司都很难获得公司成长所需的贷款。

5·The housing shortage in the Western Cape adds to tension between Coloureds (mixed-raceSouth Africans) and blacks.

在西开普地区，住房紧缺增强了有色（混合种族的南非人）和黑人之间的紧张状态。

缺少

1·Devices which are complicated to use, for example, are not appropriate in Settings where there is a shortage of trained staff.

例如，一些设备使用起来很复杂，这对缺少训练有素的工作人员的地方而言，并不适合。

2·People with hyperactivity disorder have a shortage of dopamine in their brains, which a recent study suggests may be at the root of the problem.

由于过度兴奋而混乱的人脑中都缺少多巴胺，最近的一份调查报告指出这可能是问题的主要根源。

3·Meanwhile, the shortage of capacity means that its margin of excess power has been shrinking for 20 years.

同时，产量的缺少也意味着20年来其过量能量的边际效应一直在缩小。

4·The health worker shortage in Africa: are enough physicians and nurses being trained?

非洲缺少卫生工作者：是否正在培养足够的医生和护士？

5·Nationally about 7% of children are privately educated, but in affluent areas with a shortage of good state schools such as central London, almost 20% of secondary-age children go private.

全国大约7%的孩子在私立学校学习，但是在缺少好公立学校的地区，比如伦敦市中心，中学年纪的孩子差不多有20%上私立学校。

短少

1·The shortage in net weight of delivered cargo was due to insufficiency of originally dispatched weight.

到货净重短少，系原发货重量不足所致。

2·In view of the above, we are of the opinion that the shortage of the said cargo was due to short packing before shipment.

鉴于上述情况，我们认为上述货物短少系付运前漏装所致。

3·The Contractor's obligations of inspection, care, custody and control shall not relieve the Employer of liability for any shortage, defect or default not apparent from a visual inspection.

承包商的检查、照管、监护和控制的义务，不应解除雇主对目视检查难发现的任何短少、缺陷或缺项所负的责任。

短量

1·We regret that your claim on shortage can't be accepted.

很遗憾你们提出的短量索赔我们无法接受。

(1)shortage of缺少……

(1)water shortage缺水；水量不足；枯水

(1)shortage of water resources水资源短缺

(1)food shortage粮食短缺

(1)power shortage电力短缺

(1)fund shortage资金不足， 资金短缺