shortage是什么意思？

shortage

英[ˈʃɔ:tɪdʒ] 美[ˈʃɔrtɪdʒ]

• n. 不足，缺点，缺少，缺少量，不足额；

复数：shortages;

例句

• Because of the housing shortage, many couples had to double up in one tiny apartment. 由于住房紧张, 许多对夫妻只好挤在一栋公寓里。
• If uncontrolled,the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices. 如果不加控制,这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨。
• If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices. 如果不加控制, 这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨。
• A severe shortage of qualified staff. 合格员工的严重短缺
• There is a shortage of principal. 资金有些短缺。
• Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage. 燃料短缺受到影响,制造业首当其冲。
• Shortage of funds is still very much a live issue. 资金短缺仍然是当前的重大问题。
• The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds. 问题的关键是缺乏经费。
• The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water. 这个城市严重缺水。
• There's an acute shortage of water. 这里严重缺水。

同义词

• n.
  shortage的同义词之：缺乏
  need, want, deficiency, lack, deficit, absence,
• shortage的同义词之：其他释义
  drought, scarcity, famine, poverty, deficiency, contraction, dearth, lack, want, deficit, absence, need,

同义词解析

• 以下这些名词均包含 "缺乏，不足" 的意思
  lack：普通用词，指部分或完全的不足。
  want：指完全或短缺某物，侧重缺少之物是必需的东西。使用范围比lack窄些。
  absence：指某物根本不存在或完全短缺，或某人虽存在，但未到现场。
  shortage：指不足，但侧重达不到规定的，需要的或已知应有的数量。
  scarcity：指产量不足或缺乏某物难以应付或满足需要。

英语四级真题

Solutions to global fuel shortage.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文

英语六级真题

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
The government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).
出自-2010年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-VAR
  不足;缺少;短缺
  If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it.
  例句
  A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief... 资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。 Vietnam is suffering from food shortage... 越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
  2. an acute insufficiency

行业词典

• 法律： 短缺；缺量；缺额；
  电力： 缺电；