shortfall
英 [ˈʃɔːtfɔːl]
美 [ˈʃɔːrtfɔːl]
n. 缺口; 差额; 亏空
复数：shortfalls
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.- 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。
- The government has refused to make up a £30,000 shortfall in funding.
英英释义
noun
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
- new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
双语例句
- 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。 - Overall, countries have reported a funding shortfall of US$ 1 billion for TB implementation in2012.
总体而言，各国报告称，2012年用于实施结核病活动的资金尚缺少10亿美元。 - Deposits and other types of funding are unlikely to make up the shortfall.
存款和其他类型的融资不太可能填补这一缺口。 - There will be a shortfall in wheat supplies this year.
今年的小麦供应会有一定数量的短缺。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - But the goal is threatened by a major funding shortfall.
鉴于这些努力，脊髓灰质炎的末日似乎不远了。但是，这一目标受到大额资金供应不足的威胁。 - Other investors may be looking for currency appreciation or deflation in goods prices to offset the nominal income shortfall.
其他投资者可能在指望货币升值或物价下跌，以抵消名义收益亏空。