shortage

英[ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ]美[ˈʃɔːrtɪdʒ]

n.不足，缺少，短缺；

复数：shortages;

例句

Because of the housing shortage, many couples had to double up in one tiny apartment.由于住房紧张, 许多对夫妻只好挤在一栋公寓里。

If uncontrolled,the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.如果不加控制,这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨。

If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.如果不加控制, 这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨。

A severe shortage of qualified staff.合格员工的严重短缺

There is a shortage of principal.资金有些短缺。

Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.燃料短缺受到影响,制造业首当其冲。

Shortage of funds is still very much a live issue.资金短缺仍然是当前的重大问题。

The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds.问题的关键是缺乏经费。

The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.这个城市严重缺水。

There's an acute shortage of water.这里严重缺水。

英语六级真题

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

We aren't suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we're suffering from a lack of policy resolve.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.

The government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages.

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service

Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service.

Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of farm members.

In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

Now, Africa's largest economy is facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect, leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.

There was a shortage of check in desks.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-VAR

不足;缺少;短缺

If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it.

例句

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

2. an acute insufficiency

行业词典

法律： 短缺；缺量；缺额；

电力： 缺电；