shortfall

英 [ˈʃɔːtfɔːl]

美 [ˈʃɔːrtfɔːl]

n. 缺口; 差额; 亏空

复数：shortfalls　

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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.
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。

英英释义

noun

the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
1. new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit
Synonym:deficitshortage

双语例句

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 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。
Submergence-tolerant varieties could make major inroads into Bangladesh's annual rice shortfall and substantially reduce its import needs.
耐淹品种可能在很大程度上改善孟加拉国每年的水稻短缺，并显著减少其进口需求。
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。
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。
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。
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。
In theory, excess savings produce trade surpluses, and vice-versa, savings shortfall means deficits, he acknowledged.
理论上，储蓄过量就回造成贸易顺差，反之亦然，储蓄短缺就意味着贸易逆差。
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。
Other investors may be looking for currency appreciation or deflation in goods prices to offset the nominal income shortfall.
其他投资者可能在指望货币升值或物价下跌，以抵消名义收益亏空。