由于缺乏材料，我们进行不下去了。

We were held up for lack of materials.

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不久，由于缺乏材料，我们进行不下去了。

Pretty soon we were held up for lack of material.

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尽管事实上，我们很少有内地的鱼菜在那些年里时，缺乏材料，我的母亲从来没有忘记烹调鱼，她最亲爱的女儿对她的生日。

Despite of the fact that we seldom had a fish dish inland in those years when it was lack of materials, my mother never forgot to cook fish for her dearest daughter on her birthday.

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