shortage

CET4TEM4考研CET6中频词常用词汇

英 ['ʃɔːtɪdʒ] 美['ʃɔrtɪdʒ]

释义

n. 缺乏，缺少；不足

词态变化

复数: shortages;

近义词

need want deficiency lack deficit absence

中文词源

shortage 不足，短缺

short,短缺的，-age,名词后缀。

英文词源

shortage (n.): 1862, American English, from short + -age.

双语例句

1. The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic.: 这个国家的水资源匮乏可能会带来灾难性的后果。

2. A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief.: 资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。

3. Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses.: 因为护理人员严重不足，患者生命垂危。

4. Any shortage could push up grain prices.: 任何一种短缺都会抬高粮食价格。

5. America has no shortage of strangely named clubs.: 美国有不少名字稀奇古怪的俱乐部。

英英释意

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

2. an acute insufficiency

实用场景例句

food/housing/water shortages: 食物 / 住房 / 用水短缺

a shortage of funds: 资金不足

There is no shortage of (= there are plenty of) things to do in the town.: 城里不愁找不到活儿干。

A shortage of funds is preventing the UN from monitoring relief...: 资金短缺使联合国无法督导救援工作。

Vietnam is suffering from food shortage...: 越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。

This is why the feature is sometimes called the relationship feature.: 这也是这一特性常常被成为关联关系特性的原因.

There is a shortage of principal.: 资金有些短缺.

This is due to the enemy's underestimation of China and also to his shortage of troops.: 这是由于敌人对中国估计不足而来的,也有他自己兵力不足的原因.

There is a severe shortage of fuel.: 燃料严重短缺.

If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.: 如果不加控制, 这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨.

This makes the teacher shortage even more critical.: 这使师资匮乏的问题更为严重.

The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.: 这个城市严重缺水.

A shortage of building land will push property values up.: 建筑用地缺乏将造成房地产价格逐渐上升.

The shortage of gas has thrown us back on the use of bicycles.: 由于汽油短缺,我们只好用自行车作交通工具.

Heavy storms worsened the fuel shortage.: 狂风暴雨使燃料短缺情况更加严重.

There is a shortage of well qualified teachers of foreign languages, especially of French and Japanese.: 合格的外语教师还很缺乏, 尤其是教法语和日语的.

The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds.: 问题的关键是缺乏经费.

Manufacturing industry was worst affected by the fuel shortage.: 燃料短缺制造业最受到影响.

There's an acute shortage of water.: 这里严重缺水.

Shortage of funds is still very much a live issue.: 资金短缺仍然是当前的重大问题.

Profiteering in a time of shortage is wrong.: 乘物资缺乏牟取暴利是不对的.

There is an acute shortage of water.: 水严重短缺。

a shortage of munitions: 军需品缺乏

the perennial problem of water shortage: 缺水这个老问题

Although three days isn't very long, shortage of time was the least of his problems.: 虽然3天时间不算长，但对他来说，这已经是最不成问题的问题了。

Any shortage could push up grain prices.: 任何一种短缺都会抬高粮食价格。

The increase in the number of rooms available in private homes acted as a palliative to the general accommodation shortage.: 私宅中可用房间数的增加缓解了客房总体不足的问题。

America has no shortage of strangely named clubs.: 美国有不少名字稀奇古怪的俱乐部。

There is a shortage of carrots. So everybody starts growing carrots. Next season, surprise, surprise, there is a glut of carrots.: 胡萝卜紧缺，于是大家都去种胡萝卜。等到来年这个时候，可想而知，胡萝卜就会过剩。

The water shortage in this country is potentially catastrophic.: 这个国家的水资源匮乏可能会带来灾难性的后果。

考试真题

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.

Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.

Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the world's grain production.

Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.

But water shortages are even more worrying in India.

But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.

Solutions to global fuel shortage.

since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.

Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

We aren't suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we're suffering from a lack of policy resolve.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.

The government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages.

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service

Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service.

Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of farm members.

In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

Now, Africa's largest economy is facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect, leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.

There was a shortage of check in desks.

The loss of big trees was greatest in areas where trees had suffered the greatest water shortage.

Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.

One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.

The shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.

同义词辨析

lack, want, absence, shortage, scarcity

这些名词均含"缺乏，不足"之意。

lack：普通用词，指部分或完全的不足。

want：指完全或短缺某物，侧重缺少之物是必需的东西。使用范围比lack窄些。

absence：指某物根本不存在或完全短缺，或某人虽存在，但未到现场。

shortage：指不足，但侧重达不到规定的，需要的或已知应有的数量。

scarcity：指产量不足或缺乏某物难以应付或满足需要。