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
- 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。 - Foreign students have become invaluable to Australia because their influx has coincided with a sharp funding shortfall for universities.
留学生对于澳大利亚十分重要，因为在留学生大量流入的同期，澳大利亚的大学出现了严重的资金不足。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Expected shortfall ( ES) is a new method for measuring market risk.
期望损失值是一种评估市场风险的新测度。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The funding shortfall has made it particularly hard to finance new ship purchases.
资金短缺使得购买新船很难获得融资。