Not having all the necessary equipment or resources.
装备简陋的；设备不全的
many hospitals and clinics were understaffed and under-equipped
许多医院和诊所人手不足，设备简陋。
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During operations, the brigade Intelligence section was severely understaffed and under-equipped to handle the volume of information coming in during actual combat operations.
They were many miles from the nearest, grossly under-equipped health clinic.
Within ten days, the under-equipped Allied troops were pushed off the island.
His dad joined the growing anger at the Government for only sending 3,300 under-equipped troops to cover a massive area.
Increasingly overwhelmed by their grisly discoveries, police officials said today that international help for the underequipped Ugandan police force would be welcome.
Her His reporting on the needs of the sick and the dying in the woefully under-equipped Baghdad hospitals are heartbreaking.
Under educated, under manned and woefully under equipped the local force is simply not up to the task.
A chronically harassed, understaffed, underequipped system reaches reflexively for routine diagnoses, prescriptions.
Meanwhile, the dominance of air forces in procurement battles has left Britain's land army woefully under-equipped.
With doctors and nurses too scared to report to hospitals in Swat, injured civilians are flooding under equipped hospitals outside the region.
Capt. Julius Boyd is a supply officer for an impatient and under-equipped army.
Your employees in Iqaluit are hard-working but underequipped, while your customers are frustrated with delays at the mailing source.
But, as has chronically been the case, they are technically underequipped.
Under equipped hospitals according to U. N. officials overwhelmed with injured.
In 3 months, the ISF transitioned from an underequipped, nascent organization to a better equipped, more disciplined force.
In addition, African Union forces are grossly underequipped; the region's various militia are far better armed.
They're either too small and under equipped or too big.
Reservists who have been sent to Iraq recently have found themselves vastly under-equipped.
Iraq's army, grossly underequipped compared with the US military, is constantly targeted by insurgents.
But Sudan has so far resisted a large UN deployment in Darfur, where an undermanned, under-equipped African Union peacekeeping force is struggling.