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
- 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。 - Moreover, this huge shortfall cannot be explained by a pre-crisis boom.
此外，这一巨大差距无法用危机前的繁荣来解释。 - Foreign students have become invaluable to Australia because their influx has coincided with a sharp funding shortfall for universities.
留学生对于澳大利亚十分重要，因为在留学生大量流入的同期，澳大利亚的大学出现了严重的资金不足。 - The transportation of convicts to New South Wales had ceased in1840 bringing about a shortfall in the labour supply.
在运送犯人，以新南威尔士州已经停止，在1840年实现一个缺口在劳动力的供应。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。