short of 的定义
- Having an inadequate supply of, as in We're short of cash right now. [Late 1600s] Also see fall short of.
short of 近义词
等同于 insufficient
等同于 barring
等同于 minus
等同于 depleted
等同于 except
更多short of例句
- 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.
- But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
- In short, we found ways to couch messages of failure or inadequacy.
- 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.
- He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
- They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
- And since he was a very fast runner—for short distances—he met Grandfather Mole just as the old chap was crawling up the bank.