lack of

Heat and lack of rain have compacted the soil.

高热少雨使土壤固结。

She continually harps on lack of money.

她总唠叨说缺钱。

He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.

他觉得人们看不起他不懂人情世故。

Abdication is precluded by the lack of a possible successor.

因为没有可能继承人, 让位无法实现。

The lack of rain aggravated the serious lack of food.

"由于干旱少雨,缺粮问题更加。"

The lack of rain aggravated the already serious lack of food.

缺少雨水加了业已食物短缺。

Lack of money led to the abandonment of this plan.

由于缺乏经费,最后只好放弃这项计。

He tends to be romantic owing to lack of experience.

由于缺乏经, 他有浪漫主义倾向。

The project was scuppered by lack of money.

由于缺乏资金, 这项计落空了。

Lack of planning is sapping the company’s efficiency.

缺乏计削弱公司效率。

Lack of proper nourishment reduces their power to resist disease.

营养不良降低了他们抵抗疾病能力。

A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.

述缺乏吸引力，读者读到只是一些支离破碎片段。

Peter was severely lectured for lack of consideration to his mother.

彼得因毫不体贴母亲而受到厉训斥。

He made oblique references to her lack of experience.

他拐弯抹角地说她缺乏经。

The kernel of his problem is lack of money.

他问题核心是缺钱。

She nags at her husband about their lack of money.

她抱怨丈夫没钱。

The newlyweds decided to conduct family planning for lack of a sound economic base.

那对新婚夫妇因缺乏坚实经济基础决定实行计生育。

The flowers languished from lack of water.

花因缺水而凋萎。

My sister has been preaching at me again about my lack of neatness.

我姐姐又跟我唠叨要我改掉不爱整洁毛病。

Owing to lack of time, we cannot do more than what we have done.

由于时间不够，我们只能做到这样。