understaffed

adj.

1. 人员不足；人手太少
   not having enough people working and therefore not able to function well

1. ADJ-GRADED 人员不足的；人手不够的
   If an organization is understaffed, it does not have enough employees to do its work properly.
   1. Many institutions offering child care are understaffed and underequipped.
      许多保育机构人手不够，设备也不足。
   2. ...an understaffed police force.
      人员不足的警察队伍

1. Many institutions offering child care are understaffed and underequipped.
   许多保育机构人手不够，设备也不足。
2. Now the Department is heavily understaffed ( or short-staffed, short-handed).
   目前该部门严重缺员。
3. The hospital is understaffed.
   这家医院缺编。
4. If they tuned one query at a time," we'd be understaffed. "
   如果他们一次调优一个查询，“我们的人手将不够用。”
5. When we're understaffed and under pressure, it's very tempting to accept assumptions as facts.
   当我们人员不足并承受压力时，接受假设作为事实是非常诱人的。
6. The boards that review proposed studies are overburdened, understaffed and shot through with conflicts of interest.
   负责审阅那些建议性研究的委员会负荷过重，人手不足，充满利益冲突。
7. Williams says he's seen many projects flounder because they're understaffed in critical areas, or because a project manager overestimated what could be done all at once.
   威廉姆斯表示，他见过许多项目陷入困境，因为他们在关键领域的人手不足，或者因为项目经理高估了一次就能完成的目标。
8. For example, some developed countries have put policies in place to stop active recruitment of health workers from severely understaffed countries.
   例如，有些发达国家已制定政策，制止从严重缺员的国家主动招聘卫生工作者。
9. The school was over-crowded and desperately understaffed.
   这个学校学生过多而教职工太少。
10. We are so understaffed that we cannot fulfil any more orders before Christmas.
    我们因为缺少人手，所以圣诞节前无法交付更多的订货。
11. This unscientific and tacit justification arises from the fact that forecast offices are usually understaffed.
    这个不科学和含糊的理由产生于预报部门普遍人手不足。
12. We're understaffed this week.
    这周我们严重缺乏人手。
13. Therefore, the use of simple understaffed beads and weaving techniques, their design and making jewellery ( DIY) became the global fashion created.
    因此，利用简易的人手串珠和编织技术，自己设计并制作饰品（DIY）成为了全球时尚的大气候。
14. Even today, its foreign service remains woefully understaffed: both New Zealand and Singapore have more serving diplomats.
    即使在今天，印度外交机构的人员仍然远远不足：新西兰和新加坡两国在任外交官均多于印度。
15. But understaffed Danish businesses agree-they want looser immigration laws to spur the economy and increase the labor pool.
    但是人手不足的丹麦企业赞同&他们希望有更宽松的移民法来刺激经济以及增加劳动力。
16. State institutions charged with land management are understaffed, lack basic logistics to work with, and lack transparency and accountability to its wider constituents.
    负责土地管理事务的国家机构人员不足，缺乏开展工作所需的基本后勤保障，并对其广大选民缺乏透明性和问责制。
17. A report published today suggests that more than half of britain's prisons are understaffed.
    今天发表的一篇报道说，英国半数以上的监狱警力不足。
18. Nurses 'perceptions and responses to understaffed situation
    临床护理人员面对人员配备不足的感受和反应
19. The terse, one-page rejection of Coke's bid issued by the woefully understaffed anti-monopoly section of the Ministry of Commerce lacks clarity.
    中国商务部的反垄断部门人手严重不足，该部门发布的拒绝可口可乐收购汇源的简短决定（只有一页）缺乏清晰度。
20. The fsa, as well as the securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission which sits under it, manages to be both understaffed and overly adversarial.
    更为盛者，金融服务厅与其下属机构“证券交易监督委员会”一样设法使自身人员不足且极对抗性。
21. Police and courts are understaffed, underpaid and susceptible to bribes and threats.
    警察和法庭人手不足，报酬太低，无法抵御贿赂，抵抗威胁。
22. In a recent study, 40% of schools were found to be understaffed.
    最近一项研究发现，四成的学校人员配备不足。
23. The office is understaffed since the secretary left.
    自从秘书离职后，办公室里人手不足。
24. It's dirty, it's unsafe, it's understaffed.
    肮脏，缺乏安全，人手也不足。
25. Experts say India's police force is understaffed and underequipped, and that hundreds of thousands more police personnel need to hired and trained.
    专家表示，印度警方警力不足，装备落后。必须再次招募和训练数十万名警察。
26. The associations are understaffed, so every year they need volunteers to help pull the floats.
    每年的「祗园祭」节庆，常常因拉花车的人手不够，而需要一些志愿者的协助。
27. I can think of a good few medical students who would willingly "work their way through colleges" by filling in as nurses at our understaffed hospitals.
    我可以想象不少读医的学生是愿意来我们人手不足的医院当护士帮助病人填写病历，以此来挣钱读完大学的。
28. The hospital is chronically understaffed.
    这家医院人手不足。
29. Service is slow because the restaurant is understaffed.
    由于员工太少，这家餐馆提供的服务不够及时。
30. 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。

adj

1. inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
   1. they're rather short-handed at the moment
   2. overcrowded and understaffed hospitals

   Synonym:    short-handedshort-staffedundermanned