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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Deposits and other types of funding are unlikely to make up the shortfall.
  存款和其他类型的融资不太可能填补这一缺口。
• 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。
• We have to borrow money to cover the shortfall between expenditure and revenue.
  我们不得不借钱以弥补收支间的差额。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。