underfunded

adj.

1. 资金不足的；缺乏资金的
   not having enough money to spend, with the result that it cannot function well
   1. seriously/chronically underfunded
      严重 / 长期缺乏资金

1. ADJ-GRADED (组织或机构)资金短缺的，财力不足的，经费拮据的
   An organization or institution that is underfunded does not have enough money to spend, and so it cannot function properly.
   1. For years we have argued that the health service is underfunded...
      多年来我们一直都在说卫生医疗方面资金投入不足。
   2. Most adults believe state schools are underfunded.
      大多数成年人都认为公立学校经费不足。
   3. ...underfunded pensions.
      资金短缺的养老金

1. For years we have argued that the health service is underfunded
   多年来我们一直都在说卫生医疗方面资金投入不足。
2. Most adults believe state schools are underfunded.
   大多数成年人都认为公立学校经费不足。
3. As affluent women take charge of family or business giving decisions, they are directing more donations toward historically underfunded causes.
   随着富有的女性担负起家庭和事业上的决策之责，她们将更多的捐赠投向了历来资金不足的方面。
4. However, American school taxes are usually raised locally, and many neighbourhoods are segregated, and so most poor black children attend underfunded schools where they learn just enough to do lowly jobs for whites.
   然而，美国的学校通常靠地方税收维持，而许多居民区是隔离的，因此家境贫寒的黑人孩子大多只能就读于资金匮乏的学校，他们在那儿所受的教育仅够为白人完成低端工作。
5. A new urban social compact is needed to upgrade underfunded schools, and to train and connect more people to the emerging downtown economy.
   它需要新的城市社会契约来改造经费不足的学校，培训并延揽更多的人参与新兴的市中心经济。
6. But while its diplomatic service has expanded rapidly over the past decade, it remains too small and underfunded for the country to truly project itself abroad.
   不过，尽管过去十年里巴西的外交服务发展得很迅速，但这种服务的规模依然太小、支撑这种服务的资金也严重不足，这使得巴西难以真正在海外发挥自己的影响力。
7. All of these critical areas are underfunded, which hinders productivity, national security and private investment.
   所有这些关键领域都经费不足，对生产率、国家安全和私人投资造成了妨碍。
8. Second, the systemic effects of a bankruptcy may not be in the price; for example, even if the companies would still employ workers to build cars, the government insures their underfunded pension plans.
   其次，破产的系统性效应也许尚未计入价格。比如，即使这两家公司仍将雇用工人制造汽车，但政府将为它们资金不足的退休金计划提供保险。
9. Ticket sales account for less than 1 per cent of overall government revenue, but the bulk of the proceeds are earmarked for the woefully underfunded social security system, providing an important supplement, at least in theory.
   彩票销售收入在政府总财政收入中所占比重不到1%，在理论上，大部分彩票收入会被用于填补资金严重不足的社保体系，作为一种重要的补充。
10. An aging population, an underfunded pension system, and half-a-billion workers who aren't covered could be a drag on economic growth.
    人口老化、退休金养老金系统不完善，以及五亿劳动者没有保障，这将严重影响经济的增长。
11. International friends of the great wall, an underfunded ngo, has used a considerable proportion of its limited cash to date to address a problem that need not exist in the first place& and at a time when there are many other serious issues to confront.
    “国际长城之友”这一资金很少的民间组织，至今已将其有限资金的很大比例用到了这一本不必是第一重要的事情上现如今有很多其他重要问题需要解决。
12. Bottled Water and Tap Water Regulation sFDA and state bottled water programs are seriously underfunded.
    美国食品药品局对瓶装水的管理缺乏资金。
13. Second, Congress needs to sharply increase the premiums the PBGC can charge underfunded plans.
    第二，国会必须大幅增加美国联邦养老金保障公司对资金不足的项目可收取的保费。
14. China will require most of its biggest government-owned enterprises to pay larger dividends to the state next year to help rebalance the economy and funnel more money into underfunded public services.
    中国将要求大多数规模最大的国有企业明年提高上缴国家的红利比例，以帮助经济恢复平衡，为投资不足的公共服务输入更多资金。
15. South-East Asia's existing network of railways is creaking, patchy and underfunded.
    东南亚现存的铁路老旧失修、七拼八凑并且资金供应不足。
16. The government does not admit that the hospital service is underfunded.
    政府不承认医疗服务机构资金不足。
17. Both the arts and protecting the environment are important causes, and both are often underfunded.
    艺术和环保都是值得努力的重要目标，但却经常有资金不足的问题。
18. Some are well known, and based on legislated promises, such as the underfunded social safety net.
    有些负债尽人皆知，是基于立法承诺，比如资金不足的社会保障网络。
19. This trend will come at a time when the public health system in many countries is already vastly overstretched and underfunded.
    在许多国家的公共卫生系统已经大大超负荷运转且面临供资不足时，这种趋势将会到来。
20. It has also stopped the authorities raising cash to shore up China's underfunded national pension scheme.
    产权市场的不发达还限制官方增发现金支持资金不足的国家养老金计划。
21. The agencies say they are overstretched and underfunded and are appealing for more help from the international community.
    这些机构说，他们已竭尽全力，但是资金不足，他们呼吁国际社会提供更多帮助。
22. And he deferred payments into the state pension fund& worryingly, as it is woefully underfunded.
    由于严重缺乏资金，他只好忧虑地延迟支付国家养老基金。
23. Think about the life-long demands for care at a time when most health systems are already overburdened, underfunded, and dangerously understaffed.
    想想多数卫生系统已经存在不堪负重、资金不足状况以及人员短缺到了危险境地之时对医护带来的终身需求。
24. Back then, I was doing doctorate research in the department of social anthropology at Cambridge University, which was a fascinating place to work but also underfunded, ignored by the outside world, and riven with intellectual self-doubt.
    当时，我正在剑桥大学（Cambridgeuniversity）社会人类学系读博士。这个地方非常适合做研究，但资金匮乏、被外界忽视，并且由于知识分子的自我怀疑而四分五裂。