shortfalls

英 [ˈʃɔːtˌfɔːlz]

美 [ˈʃɔrtˌfɔlz]

n.  缺口; 差额; 亏空
shortfall的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 不足;缺口;差额;亏空
  If there is ashortfall insomething, 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。

双语例句

• In any event, shortfalls from Venezuela could be made up elsewhere, albeit possibly at high prices.
  无论如何，委内瑞拉石油供应的不足，可以在其它地方得到弥补，尽管价格可能要高些。
• China Mobile has teamed up with Shanda, helping the telecom company to tackle content shortfalls.
  中国移动已经与盛大合作，以解决内容短缺的问题。
• Where cloud implementations have taken place, there has been significant shortfalls between expected benefits and those actually achieved.
  凡是实施了云计划的地方，都存在预期收益和实际收益的差距。
• Most state and local governments are not allowed to borrow to cover shortfalls.
  大部分的州政府和地方政府是不允许借贷来弥补财政短缺的。
• Those shares had plunged in 1771 mainly because of losses in Bengal, but the company kept paying high dividends and covered up its shortfalls by borrowing money.
  这只股票在1771年早已大跌，主要是因为孟加拉的损失。但这家公司靠借钱继续支付高股息，掩盖了问题。
• The government said it would provide a "temporary capital buffer" for banks that were unable to raise it from private sources if "stress tests" to be carried out from this week revealed shortfalls.
  美国政府表示，如果本周进行的“压力测试”暴露出不足，政府将向无法从私人渠道筹措到资金的银行提供“暂时性的资金缓冲”。
• State budget shortfalls have led to widespread layoffs, tax increases, spending cuts and other measures that have restrained economic growth.
  州预算不足已导致普遍的解雇，税收增加，开支削减和抑制经济的增长的其它措施。
• It cannot replace shortfalls in local and central government budgets, but it can help to bridge the gap.
  它不能弥补地方和中央政府预算的不足，但能帮助缩小缺口。
• Openly confronts issues; does not rationalize shortfalls.
  以开放的心态面对问题，不对缺陷妥协。
• Yet European nations have experienced significant revenue shortfalls, weak growth and, in some cases, a loss of access to international capital markets.
  不过，欧洲国家也有着收入骤减和增长疲软的经历，在某些情况下，也存在无法通过国际资本市场融资的问题。