shortage
美 [ˈʃɔrtɪdʒ]
英 [ˈʃɔː(r)tɪdʒ] 
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复数:shortages 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | 不足;缺少;短缺a situation when there is not enough of the people or things that are needed |
| food/housing/water shortages 食物╱住房╱用水短缺 |
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| There is no shortage of(= there are plenty of) things to do in the town. 城里不愁找不到活儿干。 |
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The official reason for the delay is a parts shortage, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what part would be hard to get.
官方对推迟发布的理由是,有一个部件缺货,哪个部件那么难弄到?!
In this period, Germany was one of the countries that underwent a serious shortage of fuel.
在这期间,德国是一个燃料严重短缺的国家。
So far, this project looked like a typical database application, and there was no shortage of candidate persistence strategies.
到目前为止,这个项目看起来像是一个典型的数据库应用程序,并且它并不缺少可供选择的持久性策略。
No one can have failed to notice the fact that water shortage is a serious problem with which the whole world is confronted.
任何人都不能不去注意这个事实,水资源短缺是一个整个世界正面临严重的问题。
This was done largely out of necessity, as the fiber crops that were previously used for the process were experiencing a shortage.
这样做主要是出于需要,作为纤维作物,以前使用的过程中经历了短缺。
after Pearl Harbor led to American involvement in World War II and a shortage of building materials it would not be any time soon.
珍珠港事件后,导致美国在二战中的参与和建材短缺,它不会被任何时间很快。
SAIC can afford its patient entry strategy because despite being a new company in many ways, it has no shortage of resources.
这是因为,尽管在很多方面它只能算是一个新的公司,但资源并不缺乏。
He said large numbers were going to Australia, where there was a skills shortage.
他表示,大量人群涌向澳大利亚,因为当地面临熟练工人短缺的问题。
Because the war caused a shortage of these organic sources, cleaning products began to be made out of petroleum.
因为战争造成此类有机资源的短缺,清洁产品开始由石油制造。
Fund managers said the current shortage in glass used for LCD panels could keep output in check and support prices.
基金经理人指出,用于LCD面板的玻璃基板目前短缺,可能抑制产出并支撑价格。
The cause of the recent glut of pigs was a reaction to a shortage just a few years ago.
近期猪肉供应过量是数年之前猪肉短缺引发的。
However, the capacity of industry is often unable to meet demand and hence there is a general shortage of consumer goods.
然而,行业的能力往往不能以满足需求,因此这有一般消费品短缺。
the atmosphere simple and honest, always highlight style king, and he has no shortage of water close to tenderness.
处处彰显王者风范,与水亲近的他又不乏柔情。
The shortage of neutrons in U-235 seems to give its atoms a strange sort of instability.
在U-235中缺少中子似乎给予U-235原子一种奇异的不稳定性。
The bank is justified in dishonoring a cheque for insufficiency (inadequacy, shortage, shortfall) of funds in his customer's account.
因为客户帐户上的资金(寸头)不足,银行拒付支票款项是合法的。
Massu said the power shortage had made him realise how much electricity is wasted and that we need to save power in general.
大包说电的短缺让他认识到了平常用电有多浪费,大家都应该减少用电。
There is no shortage of professional musicians who keep at it even though they have no hope of making a living that way.
就如同从来不缺乏坚持这种原则的专业级音乐家,即使这样做几乎不可能维持他们的生计。
The famous computer company Apple said the flood in Thailand might cause the risk of hard disk shortage in the industry around the world.
著名电子产品公司苹果公司也表示,洪水可能会引发全行业硬盘短缺危机。
The only reason it had not worked the first time around, it was generally agreed, was a shortage of broadband connections.
一般认为,在头一波这些经营方式失败的唯一原因是互联网的宽带连接尚不普及。
One of its recommendations is the establishment of a new fund to help finance film production and overcome the shortage of talent .
该报告其中一项建议,是成立一个新的基金,帮助解决电影制作的融资和人才缺乏问题。
The shortage of neutrons in U-235 seems to give its atoms a strange sort of instability.
在U-235中缺少中子似乎给予U-235原子一种奇异的不稳定性。
There was a shortage of cars; if you found one for sale, you had to pay through the nose.
汽车缺货;即使找到一部出卖,你也得出高价。
There was a critical shortage of food.
当时粮食奇缺。
He said Darfur in western Sudan is still reeling from a devastating war exacerbated by a shortage of water and fertile land.
他还提到苏丹西部的达尔富尔仍在遭受一场伴随水资源短缺和土地贫瘠加剧的毁灭性的战争。
It is known to all that the shortage of carrier wave mode: great disturbance in channel make it difficult to transmit fault data.
众所周知,采用电力载波通信方式有着明显的缺点:通道干扰大,数据传输难以保障。
There was always the grinding sense of the shortage of money, though the style was always kept up.
他们总是痛苦地感到钱不够用,尽管豪华的生活方式一直保持着。
I hope the shortage claim program is a learning point in terms of programming as well as management of a start to end of IT project.
我希望短缺要求节目是学习的点根据编程以及开始的管理到结尾的它项目。
In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
印度曾被视为是价格低廉、随时准备工作并讲英语的工程师的无底洞,但如今却隐隐显现出技术人才短缺的情况。
Baggage dragging him, ready to stop a taxi, this was found Friday evening in Shanghai a serious shortage of taxis.
他拖着行李,准备拦辆出租车,这才发现上海周五傍晚的出租车严重缺货。
Pakistan's long-standing electricity shortage is suddenly so much worse because power plants have been shut down or damaged as well.
由于全国的发电厂被关闭或受到损坏,巴基斯坦长期的电力短缺更加雪上加霜。
Analysts mostly agree that there was no shortage of rice last year; the problem was that some countries decided to ban exports.
分析师大多认为,去年大米并不短缺,问题是一些国家决定禁止出口大米。
There was a shortage of food; so you had to pay through the nose for what you could find.
这里缺乏食物,所以你不得不为你能找到的东西付大价钱。
But necessity is the mother of invention; and the food industry seems to have no shortage of fresh recipes.
但是必要的需求是发明的母亲,而食品产业看来从不缺乏新的配方。
There has always been a shortage of organ donors for patients awaiting organ transplants.
等待器官移植的患者很多而器官捐赠者总是缺乏。
Limited train capacity and a shortage of tickets have always been two things that have led to complaints from potential passengers.
铁路载客量有限和车票短缺一直是旅客抱怨的问题来源。
Of course, there was no geological shortage of oil, just a politically manipulated one.
当然,当时并不存在一个地质学意义上的石油短缺,油价仅仅是被政治化的操纵了。
A shortage of IT staff during the holiday break didn't help and rolling out a patch over a large number of computers isn't easy.
假期时的IT员工的短缺没有任何帮助,推出一个适用于大量电脑的补丁并不简单。
But it failed to tell us that we would not need to make so many life-and-death decisions if we got to grip with the chronic organ shortage.
但是该节目没有告诉我们如果认真处理长期的器官缺乏问题,就没有必要做那么多生死抉择。
If factories are affected, 'there will be a significant impact because we're coming through a shortage of electronic components, ' he said.
他说,如果工厂受影响,那么对汽车行业的冲击将是很大的,因为我们正面临电子零部件的短缺。
Of course, there was no geological shortage of oil, just a politically manipulated one. Nor is there a geological shortage this time round.
当然,那不过是政治运作而已,当时不存在地质意义上的石油短缺,现在同样如此。
Its appearance makes up for the shortage of traditional charging methods in terms of their adaptability, security and self-charging.
它的出现弥补了传统的传导充电方法在适应性、安全性与自主充电方面的不足。
The shortage of bearing capacity is often encountered in pile foundation construction in complex schist area.
复杂片岩地区的桩基工程常出现桩基承载力不足的问题。
He took advantage of the housing shortage by renting out his basement.
他利用住房紧张的时机,把地下室租了出去。