柯林斯英汉双解大词典
shortage /ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ/ CET4 TEM4
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N-VAR If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it. 短缺
例：A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief.
资金短缺使得联合国无法监督救济工作。
例：Vietnam is suffering from food shortage.
越南正遭受食品短缺之苦。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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Food shortages are no longer a problem.
食物短缺不再是个问题。
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Staff shortages were worsened by the flu epidemic.
由于流感，职员短缺的情况更加严重了。
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The problems were compounded by severe food shortages.
严重的食物短缺使问题进一步恶化。
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Experts say more than thirty million people could be at risk of shortages unless a solution is found.
VOA: special.2009.09.21
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He says eHealth will offer a way to reduce the effects of health worker shortages and make it easier to train existing workers.
VOA: special.2009.06.17
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That disease led to starvation in Ireland from potato shortages in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
VOA: special.2009.10.27
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