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
- Submergence-tolerant varieties could make major inroads into Bangladesh's annual rice shortfall and substantially reduce its import needs.
耐淹品种可能在很大程度上改善孟加拉国每年的水稻短缺，并显著减少其进口需求。 - A portion of the shortfall comes from De Beers selling diamond mines in 2008.
其中的部分减产，是由于戴比尔斯2008年出售了一些钻矿。 - In such a scheme, friends and neighbours have to make up the shortfall if someone can't pay.
在该计划中，如果有人不还款，朋友和邻居就必须弥补差额。 - In theory, excess savings produce trade surpluses, and vice-versa, savings shortfall means deficits, he acknowledged.
理论上，储蓄过量就回造成贸易顺差，反之亦然，储蓄短缺就意味着贸易逆差。 - 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。 - 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。 - Moreover, this huge shortfall cannot be explained by a pre-crisis boom.
此外，这一巨大差距无法用危机前的繁荣来解释。 - Women and youth bear the brunt of the resulting shortfall in employment.
妇女和年轻人被雇佣对市场的冲击是造成工作岗位短缺的另一个因素。 - North Korea is facing a food production shortfall this year of almost 1.7m tonnes, the highest since 2001.
朝鲜今年面临着将近170万吨的食品产量缺口，为2001年以来的最高水平。 - A funding shortfall of US$ 810 million is also standing in the way of eradication.
但是缺少8.1亿美元的资金也阻碍着根除该病的道路。