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shortage n.不足；缺少，短缺 (1) 战争因军火不足而失败。(2) 那年冬天，由于电力不足，市里采取了部分停电供应措施。(3) 他总是叹息研究经费不足。(4) 战争的持续意味着食品短缺。(5) 这家公司的主要问题是缺少有技术的人员。 When there's a shortage, there's not enough of something. If you don't have enough money to pay your bills, you have a shortage of money. A bad football team may have a shortage of good players. This kind of shortage is like a deficit or shortfall. A shortage can also be a severe dearth of something, like a famine, which is a lack of food. If there's a drought because of little rainfall, that's a serious shortage.

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英 ['ʃɔːtɪdʒ] 美 ['ʃɔːrtɪdʒ] (1) The war was lost because of a shortage of munitions.(2) Power shortage browned out the city that winter.(3) He always bemoans the shortage of funds for research.(4) Continuance of the war will mean shortage of the food.(5) The company's main problem is the shortage of skilled personnel. A shortage is a lack of something, especially a severe lack. A drought is a shortage of water. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]不足；缺少；短缺 If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it.   [usu with supp]A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief...资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。Vietnam is suffering from food shortage...越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。There's no shortage of ideas when it comes to improving the education of children.谈到改善孩子教育问题，大家都想法多多。

英语单词	shortage
英美音标	英 ['ʃɔːtɪdʒ] 美 ['ʃɔːrtɪdʒ]
中文释义	n.不足；缺少，短缺
英语例句	(1) The war was lost because of a shortage of munitions. (2) Power shortage browned out the city that winter. (3) He always bemoans the shortage of funds for research. (4) Continuance of the war will mean shortage of the food. (5) The company's main problem is the shortage of skilled personnel.
中文例句	(1) 战争因军火不足而失败。 (2) 那年冬天，由于电力不足，市里采取了部分停电供应措施。 (3) 他总是叹息研究经费不足。 (4) 战争的持续意味着食品短缺。 (5) 这家公司的主要问题是缺少有技术的人员。
vocabulary简明	A shortage is a lack of something, especially a severe lack. A drought is a shortage of water.
vocabulary扩展	When there's a shortage, there's not enough of something. If you don't have enough money to pay your bills, you have a shortage of money. A bad football team may have a shortage of good players. This kind of shortage is like a deficit or shortfall. A shortage can also be a severe dearth of something, like a famine, which is a lack of food. If there's a drought because of little rainfall, that's a serious shortage.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]不足；缺少；短缺 If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it. [usu with supp] A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief... 资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。 Vietnam is suffering from food shortage... 越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。 There's no shortage of ideas when it comes to improving the education of children. 谈到改善孩子教育问题，大家都想法多多。

Shortage War Funds Food Lack Severe Drought 英