shortage

1 We have enough documents, letters and memoirs to prove that World War Two was not caused by food shortages or demographic pressures.

2 A lack of the key essentials of life for many citizens, as with food shortages.

对大多数的公民缺少关键的生存要素, 像食物短缺.

3 Its deficiency lies in the shortage of teachers, study time and language environment.

不足之处是中文师资短缺 、 学习时间不能保证和缺少语言环境.

4 They will doubtless produce no shortage of promises.

最后,他们必定不会缺少承诺.

5 There's no shortage of guidebooks about Paris.

6 A whisper of shortage caused us to buy and store food.

7 There is no shortage of partying at Trinity.

在圣三一学院从不缺少舞会.

8 Lavender, who sits on the House budget-writing committee, attributed the staffing shortage to low pay for workers.

9 Inkling ignores me. “—there developed a shortage. All the squash growing among the glaciers was harvested by humans to cook into pies and serve with turkey.”

10 The carmakers'problems are typical of the difficulties being thrown up by the shortage of freight.

空运不足导致的困难中,汽车制造商的问题颇为典型.

11 In a letter to Congress, Washington complained of shortages of food and clothing for his soldiers and household staff.

12 There is no shortage of worthy reform efforts and goals.

13 It was grueling work up there, and wages were pitiful, but when the call came through camp for workers to alleviate the wartime labor shortage, it sounded better than their life at Manzanar.

14 a shortage of munitions

军需品缺乏

15 There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.

16 “No shortage of accommodation,” Bushra says as we pass yet another abandoned ruin.

17 She says there’s a great shortage of bicycles so I’ll have to walk my first batch of telegrams.

18 JumboTrons, always on, regardless of power shortages, display the latest warnings about floods and quarantines.

19 His very first class with tenure, due to a shortage of space, was in a tower.

20 Power shortages browned out those cities.

电力不足使那些城市采取节约照明用电的措施.

1 缺点

claw-back disamenity out want spot default trouble crack vice fault weakness defect debit flaw objection drawback stigma shortcoming imperfection failing blemish kink inadequacy infirmity demerit dereliction nadgers hole strike gall speck defection tache down-side take-off nite spot

2 不足额

short defect shortfall deficiency

3 短缺

low thin deprivation short strapped lack squeeze deficiency jimp jimply jimpness want run short of run short fall short of stringent pushed need poverty crunch want for in short supply

4 缺陷

touch hole bug fault defect flaw objection imperfection hooker kink insufficiency defection demerit lacuna nadgers gap vice deficiency deformity

5 赤字

shortfall red ink

6 缺少

poor wanting skimp skimpy scrimp unprovided want deficiency shortfall scarcity shortness insufficiency dearth wantage lacking minus run short short on short absent deficient scant lack go short shy to seek in short supply bare of dry defective default absence be pressed for be pushed for be missing overstretched without be lacking in be devoid of less than void of be lacking missing out deficit want for hard-up poverty

7 缺乏

absent deficient wanting lacking scanty want lack failure absence deficiency deprivation dearth scantiness out fail shy vacuum scarcity paucity starve be lacking in be poor in be devoid of be short of be short on be caught without go short less than in need be short be lacking poor void insufficient scarce devoid starved poverty deficit bankruptcy insufficiency a- shy of want for

8 不足

under short weak spare slim shy incomplete insufficient scarce slender deficient wanting skimp stingy skimpy scanty scrimp scraggy scrimpy poorly scantly olig- need want lack default failure fault absence poverty defect deficiency deficit minus shortfall scarcity underage insufficiency defection paucity lacking fail come short be taken short in defect poor inadequate scant pinched meagre miserly incommensurate little inadequacy demerit poorness be lacking in out sparsely inadequately shortness be short of poorly off fall short lacking in flaw dearth short of bad limited slight failed faint defective marginal stringent penurious exiguous barely imperfection penury non- under- strap be nothing like run low to seek lack for low measly ill weakness crunch be light on less exiguity stinginess short coming