shortfall

英 [ˈʃɔːtfɔːl]

美 [ˈʃɔːrtfɔːl]

n.  缺口; 差额; 亏空

复数：shortfalls　

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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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
  1. new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
  Synonym:deficitshortage

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Deposits and other types of funding are unlikely to make up the shortfall.
  存款和其他类型的融资不太可能填补这一缺口。
• 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。
• 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。
• Other investors may be looking for currency appreciation or deflation in goods prices to offset the nominal income shortfall.
  其他投资者可能在指望货币升值或物价下跌，以抵消名义收益亏空。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Despite significant progress in2010, the projected shortfall in malaria funding threatens the hard-earned gains of the last decade.
  虽然2010年取得了重大进展，预计将出现的抗疟资金短缺将威胁过去十年来之不易的成就。