英:[ˌʌndəˈstɑ:ft]
美:[ˌʌndərˈstæft]
英:[ˌʌndəˈstɑ:ft]
美:[ˌʌndərˈstæft]
un·der·staffed
uhn dr staeft
Adjective
1. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.;
"they're rather short-handed at the moment"
"overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"
The first known use of understaffed was in 1891
1 There are opportunities to help people with disabilities become engaged in community — and all of them are underfunded and understaffed.
2 The mountains are so crowded that #VailFail has become a trending hashtag on Instagram, with skiers posting complaints about lift lines and understaffed mountains.
3 The school is badly understaffed.
这所学校教职员工严重不足。
4 Instead, he said, he found himself navigating a minefield that included understaffed concerts and absentee management from Blue Note.
5 If they tuned one query at a time, "we'd be understaffed."
如果他们一次调优一个查询,“我们的人手将不够用。”
6 "They are overworked, underpaid and understaffed," she said.
7 A 2007 Vanity Fair article suggested that Daniel had basically been abandoned in an “understaffed and overcrowded” facility in Connecticut, with his father rarely visiting.
8 “Like the rest of the health service, breast imaging, and UK radiology more widely, is understaffed and desperate for help,” said Dr Caroline Rubin, vice-president for clinical radiology at the Royal College of Radiologists.
9 A workplace that requires that kind of constant superhuman effort just to stay afloat is grossly understaffed, grossly mismanaged or both.
10 Such institutions were almost always understaffed, manned by poorly trained workers and dedicated to containing rather than treating their patients, using methods that often amounted to torture.
11 Are you waiting for your drinks because the staff are chatting by the till or are they dashing around because they are evidently understaffed?
12 Note: Most bars are understaffed on Christmas Day and may not offer a full menu.
13 The place is part of Pittsburgh’s enormous hospital complex, but her office is so understaffed that it’s sometimes hard to find someone to cover the phone when she needs to use the bathroom.
14 We were shocked by the racial division of the city and surrounding county, where most of the black kids attended understaffed and underfunded city schools while whites attended sparkling clean suburban schools with fantastic facilities.
15 You can't really appreciate that unless you're a bartender or have tried to get a decent cocktail on a busy night at an understaffed bar.
16 Furthermore, the Cambridge lab was understaffed and Kendrew was looking for someone to join him in his study of the protein myoglobin.
17 John Carpenter's first film for nearly a decade is set in an understaffed, thinly populated Oregon asylum in the 1970s, the decade when he initially made his reputation with cheap movies.
18 Galleries are understaffed, and the officers on them, surrounded by inmates all day, are put at risk and run ragged.
19 Earlier this week, a local Burger King sign in Lincoln, Nebraska, went viral after its employees posted the message "WE ALL QUIT" and "SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE" protesting against being overworked and understaffed.
20 They wanted me to be a judge, but I think they are very understaffed.
他们想让我做裁判,但我认为他们人手不足。
2 人员不足的
3 人手不够的
5 人手不够
6 人员配备不足的