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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。