shortage

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英[ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ]
美[ˈʃɔːrtɪdʒ]

基本释义

n.
不足,缺少,短缺

词性变化

实用例句

food/housing/water shortages

食物 / 住房 / 用水短缺

牛津词典

a shortage of funds

资金不足

牛津词典

There is no shortage of (= there are plenty of) things to do in the town.

城里不愁找不到活儿干。

牛津词典

A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief...

资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。

Vietnam is suffering from food shortage...

越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。

This is why the feature is sometimes called the relationship feature.

这也是这一特性常常被成为关联关系特性的原因.

期刊摘选

There is a shortage of principal.

资金有些短缺.

《简明英汉词典》

This is due to the enemy's underestimation of China and also to his shortage of troops.

这是由于敌人对中国估计不足而来的,也有他自己兵力不足的原因.

《简明英汉词典》

There is a severe shortage of fuel.

燃料严重短缺.

《简明英汉词典》

If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.

如果不加控制, 这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨.

《简明英汉词典》

This makes the teacher shortage even more critical.

这使师资匮乏的问题更为严重.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.

这个城市严重缺水.

《简明英汉词典》

A shortage of building land will push property values up.

建筑用地缺乏将造成房地产价格逐渐上升.

《简明英汉词典》

The shortage of gas has thrown us back on the use of bicycles.

由于汽油短缺,我们只好用自行车作交通工具.

《简明英汉词典》

Heavy storms worsened the fuel shortage.

狂风暴雨使燃料短缺情况更加严重.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

There is a shortage of well qualified teachers of foreign languages, especially of French and Japanese.

合格的外语教师还很缺乏, 尤其是教法语和日语的.

《简明英汉词典》

The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds.

问题的关键是缺乏经费.

《简明英汉词典》

Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.

燃料短缺制造业最受到影响.

《简明英汉词典》

There's an acute shortage of water.

这里严重缺水.

《简明英汉词典》

Shortage of funds is still very much a live issue.

资金短缺仍然是当前的重大问题.

《简明英汉词典》

Profiteering in a time of shortage is wrong.

乘物资缺乏牟取暴利是不对的.

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There is an acute shortage of water.

水严重短缺。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

a shortage of munitions

军需品缺乏

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

the perennial problem of water shortage

缺水这个老问题

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Although three days isn't very long, shortage of time was the least of his problems.

虽然3天时间不算长,但对他来说,这已经是最不成问题的问题了。

柯林斯例句

Any shortage could push up grain prices.

任何一种短缺都会抬高粮食价格。

柯林斯例句

The increase in the number of rooms available in private homes acted as a palliative to the general accommodation shortage.

私宅中可用房间数的增加缓解了客房总体不足的问题。

柯林斯例句

America has no shortage of strangely named clubs.

美国有不少名字稀奇古怪的俱乐部。

柯林斯例句

There is a shortage of carrots. So everybody starts growing carrots. Next season, surprise, surprise, there is a glut of carrots.

胡萝卜紧缺,于是大家都去种胡萝卜。等到来年这个时候,可想而知,胡萝卜就会过剩。

柯林斯例句

The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic.

这个国家的水资源匮乏可能会带来灾难性的后果。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the world's grain production.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But water shortages are even more worrying in India.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Solutions to global fuel shortage.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o weather phenomenon in decades.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

We aren't suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we're suffering from a lack of policy resolve.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of farm members.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Now, Africa's largest economy is facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect, leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

There was a shortage of check in desks.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The loss of big trees was greatest in areas where trees had suffered the greatest water shortage.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.

2017年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

  • 2. an acute insufficiency

同义词辨析

lack, want, absence, shortage, scarcity

这些名词均含"缺乏,不足"之意。

  • lack: 普通用词,指部分或完全的不足。
  • want: 指完全或短缺某物,侧重缺少之物是必需的东西。使用范围比lack窄些。
  • absence: 指某物根本不存在或完全短缺,或某人虽存在,但未到现场。
  • shortage: 指不足,但侧重达不到规定的,需要的或已知应有的数量。
  • scarcity: 指产量不足或缺乏某物难以应付或满足需要。

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