in short supply 的定义
- Less than is needed, lacking. For example, Skilled operators were in short supply, or The hotels are all full, and beds are in short supply. [First half of 1900s]
in short supply 近义词
等同于 scarce
更多in short supply例句
- Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.
- In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
- What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble family became extinct?
- Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
- Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
- You see, I am the city undertaker, and the people are dying here so fast, that I can hardly supply the demand for coffins.