重要的评论书籍，往往匮缺。

Major critical books are often missing.

水资源匮缺和水环境恶化已成为制约城市化进程和社会进步的因素。

Water shortage and deterioration of water environment become the constraint factors to the urbanization and social development.

人口城市化过程中存在着教育匮缺、教育滞后和教育形式单一等三大偏差。

In the course of population urbanization, education lags behind, develops in monotonous form and is in shortage itself.

当美国国内高教机构纷纷停止招募并缩减开支之时，亚洲与中东的大学仍然因本土申请人匮缺而对美国博士们求贤若渴。

While hiring freezes and budgets cuts pervade U.S. higher education, universities in Asia and the Middle East are hungry for candidates, often amid a dearth of native applicants.

因信息的极度匮缺，而虚构自身体验，致世间竟无一本同性恋者的自传，有的只是小说，而我们为何要制造幻象？ 那些最优秀者就在我们周围。

The terrible dearth of information, the fictionalisation of our experience, there is hardly any gay autobiography, just novels, but why novelise it when the best of it is in our lives?