shortfall是什么意思

音标:英 [ˈʃɔ:tfɔ:l]美 [ˈʃɔrtˌfɔl]

不足, 不足量[经] 缺少, 不足, 亏舱运费

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

shortfall的用法和例句：

1. There would seem to be a shortfall, going back several months.

看起来我们已经亏空好几个月了

2. The opera wouldn't be able to finish its season if I didn't cover its shortfall.

要不是我弥补亏空 歌剧季根本无法顺利落幕

3. Taylor, scour the floor for any quick plays to make up the shortfall.

泰勒 和大家说要用一切手段 快速弥补资产下降

4. The policy change was a tough call, but our schools are besieged with budget shortfalls.

改变政策是艰难的决定 但学校的预算不足

5. I'm fairly certain it's gonna make your budget shortfall even worse.

我非常确定 那会让你的预算缺口更加严重

6. With Iran on hold, we need to look at other ideas to make up the shortfall in our quarterly projections.

鉴于暂停了伊朗的计划 我们需要想其他办法来 弥补季度预测的亏空

7. You're proposing a 30percent tax cut for that 1 percent, creating, by your own math, a budget shortfall of $500 billion.

你建议为那1%的人减税30% 根据你自己的计算 会造成五千亿美元的预算缺口

8. Either I return the full cache and prove it or I fail, and in trying to excuse the shortfall, only aggravate their existing suspicion that I am part of the pirate problem, not its solution.

要么用归还金子来证明 要么就搞砸 为差额找借口 只会加重他们对我的怀疑 认为我是海盗问题的一部分 而非解决办法