Johnson cites the Central African Republic as one country where children suffer from instability and lack of basic services.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Others point to all the problems: the anachronisms, the general lack of specificity as a sign that these are composed quite late.

其他人则提出了各种问题：,时代特色，表述不够具体,由此推断这些创作得比较晚。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Poverty and unemployment remain major problems, as do the lack of good roads, good schools and health care.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

There's always this veneer of innocence, or lack of learning, or lack of sophistication; so, she is presenting herself as a simple person.

她一直给人们一种，不学无术、学识浅薄、,胸无城府的假象;,让人觉得自己是一个简单的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"As far as we're concerned they're basically hiding behind the United State's lack of ambition,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"The study alludes to things such as hopelessness, the lack of medical care.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Brennan said the Obama administration will also focus on factors that contribute to terrorism, such as poverty, and a lack of education and other opportunities for young people in many developing areas of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Although a major oil producer, Iran must import most of its gasoline because of a lack of refining capacity, creating what U.S.lawmakers have long seen as a crucial point of leverage with Tehran over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"And they will see President Obama's higher taxes, more spending,more debt, more government intervention in our economy,in the banks, in the auto industry, in health care and in energy as largely responsible for that lack of job creation,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28