shortage

释义

n.不足，缺少，短缺

词态变化

复数 :   shortages ;

实用场景例句

Limited financial resources due to a shortage restrict the UN's capacity to monitor aid operations during disasters.

由于短缺导致的有限资金限制了联合国在灾难期间监督援助行动的能力。

金山词霸

Facing a severe shortage of food supplies, the country of Vietnam is in a challenging situation.

越南正面临严重的食品供应短缺，处境艰难。

金山词霸

Food shortages, housing shortages, and water shortages are becoming increasingly severe in many regions.

食物短缺、住房短缺和水资源短缺在许多地区正变得越来越严重。

金山词霸

There is no shortage of (= there are plenty of) opportunities to explore in the city.

城里不愁找不到机会去探索。

金山词霸

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.

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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.

《简明英汉词典》

Despite three days being quite brief, the lack of time was hardly his most pressing problem.

尽管3天相当短暂，但对他来说，时间短缺远非最成问题的问题。

金山词霸

A lack of grain may drive up its price.

粮食的短缺可能会推高其价格。

金山词霸

The growing availability of rooms in private residences served as a palliative for the widespread accommodation shortage.

私宅中可用房间的增加缓解了普遍存在的住宿不足问题。

金山词霸

America strangely has no shortage of oddly named clubs.

美国奇怪地并不缺少名字古怪的俱乐部。

金山词霸

The shortage of apples leads everybody to start growing them, and by next season, surprise, there's a glut of apples.

苹果短缺导致大家都开始种植苹果，到了下个季节，果然，苹果就过剩了。

金山词霸

The energy shortage in this region is potentially disastrous.

这个地区的能源短缺可能会造成灾难性的后果。

金山词霸

Insufficient funds hinder the UN's ability to oversee relief efforts due to a shortage.

资金不足因短缺而阻碍了联合国监督救援工作的能力。

金山词霸

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 ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) 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 ( ' , 下 水道污水) 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