shortfall
英 [ˈʃɔːtfɔːl]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtfɔːl]
n. 缺口; 差额; 亏空
复数：shortfalls
Collins.1 / BNC.8933 / COCA.10472
牛津词典
noun
- 缺口；差额；亏空
if there is a shortfall in sth, there is less of it than you need or expect
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 不足;缺口;差额;亏空
If there is ashortfall insomething, there is less of it than you need.- The government has refused to make up a £30,000 shortfall in funding.
政府拒不补上 30,000 英镑的资金缺口。
- The government has refused to make up a £30,000 shortfall in funding.
英英释义
noun
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
- new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
双语例句
- Because of a looming budget shortfall, more layoffs are likely to happen.
由于出现预算不足，可能发生更多裁员。 - Overall, countries have reported a funding shortfall of US$ 1 billion for TB implementation in2012.
总体而言，各国报告称，2012年用于实施结核病活动的资金尚缺少10亿美元。 - Key areas affected by the shortfall include roads, power plants and communications networks, the ADB says.
亚行表示，受投资短缺影响的关键领域包括道路、电厂和通讯网络等。 - We have to borrow money to cover the shortfall between expenditure and revenue.
我们不得不借钱以弥补收支间的差额。 - That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can't be broken down.
过氧化氢酶量不足意味着头发中的双氧水不能被有效分解掉。 - The Thai Rice Exporters Association says there is a shortfall of30 million tons in world rice stockpiles.
泰国的大米出口商协会说，世界大米的储存出现了三千万吨的短缺。 - To make up the funding shortfall, courts are imposing higher filing fees on litigants.
为弥补资金差额，法院提高了当事人的诉讼申请费用。 - This will result in a serious shortfall of modern fighters.
这将会造成现代化战斗的一个严重不足。 - The transportation of convicts to New South Wales had ceased in1840 bringing about a shortfall in the labour supply.
在运送犯人，以新南威尔士州已经停止，在1840年实现一个缺口在劳动力的供应。 - This shortfall led to the initial fighting and the subsequent full-scale violence in Darfur, says Ban.
缺水导致了最初的冲突以及后来达尔富尔的全面暴力活动。