shortfall

noun

1. 缺口；差额；亏空
   if there is a shortfall in sth, there is less of it than you need or expect

1. N-COUNT 不足;缺口;差额;亏空
   If there is a shortfall in something, 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。

1. The move is designed to help offset the shortfall in world oil supplies caused by the UN embargo.
   此举旨在缓解联合国禁运所造成的世界石油供应短缺的局面。
2. 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。
3. The Thai Rice Exporters Association says there is a shortfall of30 million tons in world rice stockpiles.
   泰国的大米出口商协会说，世界大米的储存出现了三千万吨的短缺。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. But the goal is threatened by a major funding shortfall.
   鉴于这些努力，脊髓灰质炎的末日似乎不远了。但是，这一目标受到大额资金供应不足的威胁。
7. A funding shortfall of US$ 810 million is also standing in the way of eradication.
   但是缺少8.1亿美元的资金也阻碍着根除该病的道路。
8. 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。
9. Overall, countries have reported a funding shortfall of US$ 1 billion for TB implementation in2012.
   总体而言，各国报告称，2012年用于实施结核病活动的资金尚缺少10亿美元。
10. In theory, excess savings produce trade surpluses, and vice-versa, savings shortfall means deficits, he acknowledged.
    理论上，储蓄过量就回造成贸易顺差，反之亦然，储蓄短缺就意味着贸易逆差。
11. 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。
12. That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can't be broken down.
    过氧化氢酶量不足意味着头发中的双氧水不能被有效分解掉。
13. The funding shortfall has made it particularly hard to finance new ship purchases.
    资金短缺使得购买新船很难获得融资。
14. Submergence-tolerant varieties could make major inroads into Bangladesh's annual rice shortfall and substantially reduce its import needs.
    耐淹品种可能在很大程度上改善孟加拉国每年的水稻短缺，并显著减少其进口需求。
15. North Korea is facing a food production shortfall this year of almost 1.7m tonnes, the highest since 2001.
    朝鲜今年面临着将近170万吨的食品产量缺口，为2001年以来的最高水平。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. Moreover, this huge shortfall cannot be explained by a pre-crisis boom.
    此外，这一巨大差距无法用危机前的繁荣来解释。
19. Along with China, the Gulf states are the thrifty counterparts to America's gaping saving shortfall.
    比起美国来，海湾国家的外汇储备可是够充足的了（和中国差不多）。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. To make up the funding shortfall, courts are imposing higher filing fees on litigants.
    为弥补资金差额，法院提高了当事人的诉讼申请费用。
23. Key areas affected by the shortfall include roads, power plants and communications networks, the ADB says.
    亚行表示，受投资短缺影响的关键领域包括道路、电厂和通讯网络等。
24. Women and youth bear the brunt of the resulting shortfall in employment.
    妇女和年轻人被雇佣对市场的冲击是造成工作岗位短缺的另一个因素。
25. The transportation of convicts to New South Wales had ceased in1840 bringing about a shortfall in the labour supply.
    在运送犯人，以新南威尔士州已经停止，在1840年实现一个缺口在劳动力的供应。
26. Despite significant progress in2010, the projected shortfall in malaria funding threatens the hard-earned gains of the last decade.
    虽然2010年取得了重大进展，预计将出现的抗疟资金短缺将威胁过去十年来之不易的成就。
27. There will be a shortfall in wheat supplies this year.
    今年的小麦供应会有一定数量的短缺。
28. Foreign students have become invaluable to Australia because their influx has coincided with a sharp funding shortfall for universities.
    留学生对于澳大利亚十分重要，因为在留学生大量流入的同期，澳大利亚的大学出现了严重的资金不足。
29. 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。
30. But while some aid has been provided, it has made up only a fraction of the shortfall.
    可是，尽管联邦政府提供了一些资助，但相对于资金缺口来说也是杯水车薪。

noun

1. 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