shortages
基本释义
- n.
- 不足( shortage的名词复数 ); 缺少; 缺少量; 不足额
实用例句
Their health-care system suffers from queues, shortages and ropey equipment.
他们的医疗体系有很多不足：要排队等候，资源短缺，设备陈旧。
柯林斯例句
Lithuanians are waking up to a world of increasing shortages.
立陶宛人开始意识到物资日益匮乏。
柯林斯例句
Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places.
有些地方专业人员严重短缺。
柯林斯例句
Oil shortages have brought on an energy crisis.
石油短缺已经造成了能源危机。
柯林斯例句
Food shortages are widespread.
食物短缺的情况很普遍。
柯林斯例句
Food shortages are no longer a problem.
食物短缺不再是个问题。
柯林斯例句
Food shortages often occur in time of war.
在战争期间常常发生粮食短缺的情形.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Food shortages forced many townspeople into the country to grow their own food.
食物短缺迫使很多市民到农村自己种粮食。
柯林斯例句
Winter is setting in and the population is facing food and fuel shortages.
冬天即将到来，人们将面临食物和燃料的短缺。
柯林斯例句
Good weather leading to good grain harvests should win the country relief from food shortages.
能带来粮食丰收的好天气应该可以让该国的缺粮状况得到缓解。
柯林斯例句
The city is now relatively quiet but there's palpable anger as people cope with shortages.
现在这座城市比较安静，但却因物资匮乏而明显充斥着怒气。
柯林斯例句
"How have the sanctions affected your life in Belgrade?"— 'Well. for one thing. we already have shortages.'
“制裁措施对于你在贝尔格莱德的生活有多大影响？”——“嗯，首先，我们已经缺乏物资。”
柯林斯例句
At the same time, worldwide food and fuel shortages eased.
同时, 世界性粮食和石油短缺的现象终止了.
英汉非文学 - 政府文件
The shops are cashing in on temporary shortages by raising prices.
商店趁一时缺货而提高价格从中获利.
辞典例句
Food shortages will probably get worse towards the end of the century.
食物短缺的情况到本世纪末可能更加严重.
辞典例句
真题例句
But water shortages are even more worrying in India.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BOf all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BThe government also established a stockpile (贮存) of oil as a short-term buffer (缓冲) against future shortages.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section CFarmers are reporting steep losses and a new $20 million tomato-paste factory has halted production due to the shortages.
2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section Afirst, keeping up with the pace of technological change; recruiting high-quality staff in a time of skills shortages in it as a whole and in a highly competitive market; and the issue of retaining staff once they've been recruited and trained.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section CFor 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 nio weather phenomenon in decades.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BAmerican farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.
2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section ⅡNow shortages are appearing at the mid- skill levels.
2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section ⅡWhen the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades.
2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ