| 单词 | shortage |
| 释义 | shortage (once / 845 pages) n A shortage is a lack of something, especially a severe lack. A drought is a shortage of water. When there's a shortage, there's not enough of something. If you don't have enough money to pay your bills, you have a shortage of money. A bad football team may have a shortage of good players. This kind of shortage is like a deficit or shortfall. A shortage can also be a severe dearth of something, like a famine, which is a lack of food. If there's a drought because of little rainfall, that's a serious shortage. WORD FAMILYshortage: shortages USAGE EXAMPLESIn late 2015, a university in Osaka announced a new effort to deal with the eel shortage. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) In the streets below, ordinary citizens wrestle with 41% inflation and chronic shortages of staples such as sugar, cooking oil and medicine. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) But “this lifesaving work remains hindered by the shortage of funding and limited access to areas caught in the fighting,” he said. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required Syn|Hypo|Hyper deficit, shortfall oxygen deficit temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency lack of an adequate quantity or number 2n an acute insufficiency Syn|Hyper dearth, famine deficiency, lack, want the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。