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shortage

/shawr-tij/US // ˈʃɔr tɪdʒ //UK // (ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ) //

缺少,短缺,不足,不足之处

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
    • : the amount of such deficiency.

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Examples

  • I’m sure there’s no shortage of readers who have had to make similar choices.

  • By late April, Switch sales briefly dropped below pre-pandemic levels because of the shortage.

  • While women now have the constitutional right to vote, there has been no shortage of voting restrictions aimed to prevent them from doing so.

  • More than one school official told Voice of San Diego they’d love to order devices, but can’t because of supply shortages.

  • When the great toilet paper shortage of 2020 occurred, bath tissue companies could have easily changed their marketing to fuel the need and push profits even more.

  • But there is no shortage of great American whiskey on the market.

  • A senior Pentagon official agreed that there is a shortage of surveillance planes needed to track down ISIS.

  • There is a shortage of food, there is little aid, and they are in a dire situation.

  • In a show with no shortage of great performances, Kitsch stood out.

  • His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack.

  • Hence, shortage of ammunition and shortage of water, which last was the worse felt to-day.

  • I gave up my nephew to my country, and I—er—suffered from the shortage of potatoes to an extent that you probably didn't realize.

  • For example, a dreadful influenza epidemic occurred followed by a severe fuel shortage due to a railroad strike.

  • The production of South American rubber is limited by a shortage of men rather than a shortage of trees.

  • Anyway she has refused—and will, I fancy, never relent—to allow any extreme idea of food shortage to disturb her routine.