run short

1. Airports and ports often run short of warehouse space.
   机场和港口的仓储能力常常不足。
2. At that burn rate, GM could effectively run short of cash next summer, without even taking into account further sales declines.
   按照这个消耗速度，通用汽车明年夏季就会出现现金短缺，这还没有考虑未来销量进一步下降的因素。
3. But if they are too soft, their own companies may run short.
   但如果心太软的话，他们自己的公司也许会出现资金短缺。
4. The rising industries in material production, and particularly the burgeoning industries in nonmaterial production, often run short of workforce.
   在新兴的物质生产部门中，尤其是在日益发展的非物质生产部门中，劳动力则往往是不足的。
5. I am sorry we have run short loose-leaf notebook.
   对不起，活页簿已售完了。
6. Yet the IMF could soon run short of firepower.
   然而，该组织可能很快就会缺少火力。
7. In those days ships were sometimes so delayed by contrary wind as to run short of fresh water and provisions.
   当时船因遇到逆风而迟误，以至发生淡水和粮食不足的现象。
8. For example, we can invent cars that: can save fuel or use other types of energy so that cars can still 'be used even though resources run short.
   例如，我们可以发明节油或者消耗其他燃料的车，即使能源紧缺依然可以使用。
9. No learner has ever run short of subjects to explore.
   爱学习的人从来不会觉得缺乏研究的课题。
10. When vital supplies of food or oil run short, two things happen-prices rise as do tensions about who gets what.
    当粮食和石油短缺，有两个情况会发生&价格攀升和因争取资源而产生的磨擦。
11. We've run short of oil.
    我们已快把油用完了。
12. The nervousness about Chinese energy demand was exacerbated yesterday when officials said 32 power plants had been forced to close because of coal shortages, the second time this year the power industry has run short of coal.
    市场对中国能源需求的紧张昨日有所加剧。中国官员称，由于煤炭短缺，32家电厂被迫停产。这是中国电力行业今年第二次遭遇煤炭短缺。
13. They are afraid that the world will soon run out of oil and run short of food.
    他们担心人类不久会用完石油、发生食品短缺！但有些人则持乐观的看法。
14. Super crops won't be enough& the planet will run short of food by2030 unless we invest to avoid an imminent world water crisis, says Colin Chartres.
    ColinChartres说，只有超级作物并不够&到2030年地球将缺乏粮食，除非我们投入资金以避免巨大的世界水危机。
15. They argue that this is only fair as deficit countries always face the threat that they might run short of willing financiers, but countries running trade surpluses face no similar threats.
    它们辩称，由于逆差国总是面临愿意借钱给它们的债权国可能不够的威胁，而贸易顺差国却不存在此类风险，因此这样才最公平。
16. Did he run short distances or long distances?
    他跑短跑还是长跑？
17. Food and water have run short, Mr Edano said, and keeping the area supplied an operation carried out largely by military personnel is diverting resources from emergency efforts elsewhere.
    枝野幸男说，这一地区内食物和水的供给正变得日益紧张，并且向居民们发放这些供给主要由军事人员执行占用了其它地区的一些抢修资源。
18. Suddenly, a week from the fatal day, Carrie realised that they were going to run short.
    在那个不幸的付房租的日子前一个星期，嘉莉突然发现钱快用完了。
19. The destroying process of Nature is not recognized by people for the land is broad and natural source is not yet run short.
    自然在一点点被破坏，只是地太广资源尚不奇缺，人们还没意识到。
20. All this in a new country where there is no mum to do your washing, nor a kindly and sympathetic relative to help you out when you run short of money.
    而且还是在一个陌生的国度，没有母亲帮你洗衣服，缺钱花的时候也没有和善的亲戚帮你度过难关。
21. If the car owners happen to run short of this backup coolant, they will need to add more coolant until it reaches the maximum limit indicator.
    如果车主碰巧跑达不到这个备份冷却，他们将需要增加更多的冷却直至达到最大限度的指示器。
22. The French strikes are causing serious disruption to the economy, with a threat that the country could soon run short of petrol.
    法国罢工对经济造成了严重干扰，甚至可能很快就会让经济陷入停滞。
23. It seems that people are always in a hurry now, though we do have more convenience. Still, we run short of time to stand and stare, to speak and share.
    虽然现在我们的生活确实越来越方便了，但人们似乎总是很忙，依然缺少时间停下来对视、交谈与分享。
24. The empirical results show that most of the provinces run short of R& D efficiency in the high-tech industry, while there exist distinct differences among them.
    实证结果表明，我国高新技术产业研发效率整体水平偏低，各地差异显著，且大多数省份都呈现规模报酬递减；
25. They run short of money during the tour, and their return be Inevitable.
    他们在旅途中用光了钱，因此返回是不可避免的。
26. Meanwhile, bankers have discovered that "capital efficiency" can create risks: if banks cannot sell bonds to investors and are forced to hold these on their balance sheet instead, they may run short of capital.
    与此同时，银行家发现，“资本效率”会带来风险：如果银行无法将债券销售给投资者，不得不把这些债券留在它们的资产负债表上，它们可能出现资金短绌。
27. Even those European countries that are taking part began to run short of munitions, just 11 weeks into the fighting forcing an exasperated America to step into the breach.
    即使是那些参战的欧洲国家，也在战斗打响仅仅11周之后就开始耗尽弹药，迫使被激怒的美国挺身而出。
28. This is the happy challenge faced by the Asian Development Bank, which will run short of customers as one country after another reaches middle-income status.
    这正是亚洲开发银行（AsianDevelopmentBank）面临的可喜挑战。随着一个又一个国家相继达到中等收入水平，亚行将面临客户短缺的问题。
29. Go and get some more oil so we don't run short.
    去多弄些油来以免到时候用光了。
30. People are immersed in more and more profuse data, but run short of knowledge.
    人们陷入了数据越来越丰富但知识越来越缺乏的困境。

verb

1. to be spent or finished
   1. The money had gone after a few days
   2. Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest

   Synonym:    run lowgo