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
- That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can't be broken down.
过氧化氢酶量不足意味着头发中的双氧水不能被有效分解掉。 - This shortfall led to the initial fighting and the subsequent full-scale violence in Darfur, says Ban.
缺水导致了最初的冲突以及后来达尔富尔的全面暴力活动。 - A portion of the shortfall comes from De Beers selling diamond mines in 2008.
其中的部分减产，是由于戴比尔斯2008年出售了一些钻矿。 - Despite significant progress in2010, the projected shortfall in malaria funding threatens the hard-earned gains of the last decade.
虽然2010年取得了重大进展，预计将出现的抗疟资金短缺将威胁过去十年来之不易的成就。 - 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。 - In such a scheme, friends and neighbours have to make up the shortfall if someone can't pay.
在该计划中，如果有人不还款，朋友和邻居就必须弥补差额。 - North Korea is facing a food production shortfall this year of almost 1.7m tonnes, the highest since 2001.
朝鲜今年面临着将近170万吨的食品产量缺口，为2001年以来的最高水平。 - But while some aid has been provided, it has made up only a fraction of the shortfall.
可是，尽管联邦政府提供了一些资助，但相对于资金缺口来说也是杯水车薪。 - This will result in a serious shortfall of modern fighters.
这将会造成现代化战斗的一个严重不足。 - Expected shortfall ( ES) is a new method for measuring market risk.
期望损失值是一种评估市场风险的新测度。