片语

short t on缺乏

need需要，必须； 特别需要，迫切要求；欲望；（食物、钱或生活来源的）短缺，缺乏；必需品；贫困（或困难）的处境

short of缺乏；不足；除…以外

short terms on foreigners对外国人的短期债权

deficiency缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额

shortage缺乏，缺少；不足

Short Sketches on Poetry诗歌小品

short message on cellphone短信

drought(Drought)人名；(英)德劳特

英汉例句

• We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; we「ve become long on quantity, but short on quality.

  我们制造了更多的计算机来存储更多的信息，制造了最多的副本，却减少了交流；我们开始渴望数量，但忽视了质量。

• Analyzing how effectively a Website provides for a net positive user experience can often turn into a subjective affair, rife with opinion and short on objectivity.

  分析一个网站在提供好的用户体验方面的效果如何，往往会变成一项很主观的事情，仅停留在观点层面，缺乏客观依据。

• After counseling numerous troubled marriages, I have observed that distressed marriages frequently are weak in the domain of repentance and short on apologies.

  在众多婚姻问题的咨询中，我观察到痛苦的婚姻经常是悔改的心和简短道歉软弱的领域。

• The truth is that this book is short on reasoned analysis and long on animus, directed at elite universities, at administrators, and more than anything else at the 「professoriate,」 as they call it.

  实际上，这本书缺乏合乎情理的分析，而且充斥着敌意，箭头直指精英型院校、行政管理者、尤其是他们口中的「教授团」。

• 「One year after the Gleneagles promise, the international community is at risk of falling short on its commitments to increase aid to Africa,」 he said.

  「在格伦伊格尔斯会议上做出承诺的一年后，国际社会有可能不履行对增加对非洲援助的承诺，」他说。

• That said, it’s very short on detail, and the details are crucial. What prices will taxpayers pay to take over some of that toxic waste?

  话虽这么说，但该方案缺乏细节，而细节至关重要：纳税人将以什么价格接受一部分那些「有毒废品」？

• Asian nations have signed over 100 bilateral trade deals in less than a decade, but many of those agreements fall short on key protections for businesses, workers, and consumers.

  在过去不到10年时间内，亚洲国家签署了100多项双边贸易协议，但许多这类协议未能为商家、工人和消费者提供关键性的保护。

• Competitors from a small South Pacific island are short on practice facilities and turn to nature for help.

  来自于南太平洋一个岛国的参赛者由于缺少训练设施，而转向大自然寻求帮助。

• Liars stories tend to be chronological, shorter and short on detail.

  骗子的故事都是按时间顺序来陈述的，在细节上很短。

• However, Germany is a little short on its A-listers.

  然而，德国人在人手上还是有点底气不足。

• Nor does it help that Germany is rather short on foreign-policy experts.

  这也无助于德国颇缺乏外交政策专家的现实。

• The advisory group seems to have come up short on practical ways to do this, to the severe disappointment, it is said, of George Soros, a global financier and one of the group」s better-known members.

  令人极为失望的是，咨询小组似乎缺乏实际可行的方案，国际金融家乔治·索罗斯如是说，他是咨询小组当中最为有名的成员。

• But I read recently that Americans are taking up public service in greater Numbers because they are short on money to give.

  但最近我读到，美国人提议修建数量更多的公共设施，因为他们缺乏资金。

• In fact, this chapter is almost too full of examples and ideas; and once again, in their eagerness to present everything, the authors fall short on organizational logic.

  实际上，本章的例子很丰富并且富有思想；并且他们的热心再次用在了每件事上，作者在组织逻辑上有些缺乏。

• Mr McCain and Mr Obama both plan to reduce the deficit through spending cuts, but are short on details.

  麦凯恩和奥巴马都计划通过削减支出来减少赤字，但两人都缺乏具体措施。

• More than 250, 000 people are short on drinking water.

  超过250 000人的饮用水短缺。

• In that brief career, encouragement and incentives are both in short supply. Training is long on theory and short on practical experience.

  在其有限的职业生涯里面，激励不足，而培训又重于理论缺乏与实际结合。

• While urban areas are not short on fiber optic and copper cable, these physical data pipes are sometimes prohibitively expensive and difficult to run to the more remote reaches of the nation.

  虽然城市地区不缺乏光纤和铜光缆，但这些物理数据管道有时候极其昂贵，也很难到达国家最偏远的地方。

• Despite some earnest waffle about addressing the long-term fiscal challenge, Mr Obama has been short on specifics.

  尽管解决长期财政挑战措施中不乏热切的空谈，但奥巴马缺乏细节操作。

• Public health services that are short on supplies and staff will not be used, forcing poor people to turn to more expensive private services, even for routine care.

  缺乏物资和人力的公共卫生服务将无法得到利用，穷人不得不转向费用更为高昂的私人服务，即使是日常保健。

• So far, the proposals have been short on specifics — such as exactly how much capital Banks will have to set aside — that would allow executives and investors to assess the impact on Banks' profits.

  迄今为止，这些提案还缺乏能让管理层和投资者衡量银行利润受影响程度的具体细节，比如说银行必须留出的资金数量。

• Food for pets is always available even though the family is running short on sustenance.

  即使家里食物短缺，但是，宠物的食物是不会少的。

• After all, not everyone is going short on volatility.

  毕竟，并不是所有人都做空波动性。