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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。