shortfalls

英 [ˈʃɔːtˌfɔːlz]

美 [ˈʃɔrtˌfɔlz]

n.  缺口; 差额; 亏空
shortfall的复数

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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• The rapid increase in foreign investment has, to a certain extent, made up for investment shortfalls in agriculture in Jiangsu Province and has expedited the development and utilization of agricultural resources.
  外资迅速增加，在相当程度上弥补了江苏省农业投入的不足，加速了农业资源的开发利用。
• Rising demand has eaten into the spare capacity available to make up any shortfalls.
  不断上升的需求侵蚀了用以弥补石油短缺的后备产能。
• Tackling global investment and infrastructure shortfalls is crucial to lifting growth, job creation and productivity.
  解决全球投资和基础设施投资不足问题，对促进增长、创造就业和提高生产力至关重要。
• This will identify specific shortfalls, where improvement can be achieved.
  这可以识别特定的不足，并获得改进的机会。
• In less than 30 seconds, back came not just the yield of the security, but the month-by-month future interest payments and principal repayments, including whether and when shortfalls and losses would be incurred.
  不到30秒，系统不仅给出了这种证券的收益率，而且还给出了未来每月的利息支付额、本金偿还额，还附有是否（及何时）会发生偿款不足与损失的信息。
• We should not look askance at such a policy because of its potential shortfalls.
  我们不应当因为这一政策的某些潜在缺陷而对它置之不理。
• This will require developers to continue to leverage J2EE and general EAD best practices and layering patterns as a mean to overcome the shortfalls of this antipattern.
  这将要求开发人员继续利用J2EE和常见EAD最佳实践及分层模式，将其作为克服此反模式的缺陷的方法。
• The government said it would provide a "temporary capital buffer" for banks that were unable to raise it from private sources if "stress tests" to be carried out from this week revealed shortfalls.
  美国政府表示，如果本周进行的“压力测试”暴露出不足，政府将向无法从私人渠道筹措到资金的银行提供“暂时性的资金缓冲”。
• Those shares had plunged in 1771 mainly because of losses in Bengal, but the company kept paying high dividends and covered up its shortfalls by borrowing money.
  这只股票在1771年早已大跌，主要是因为孟加拉的损失。但这家公司靠借钱继续支付高股息，掩盖了问题。
• At some point, global oil production would hit a high point and then decline, causing grave shortfalls.
  在某一时间，全球石油产量将达到最高点，随后将一路走低，导致严重的短缺。