shortage [ 'ʃɔ:tidʒ] n.不足，缺少，不足额
shortage [ 'ʃɔ:tidʒ] n.短缺，不足额
头寸紧 credit crunch; fund shortage
risk of shortage in weight/quantity 短量险
Although people’s lives have been dramatically changed over the last decades, it must be admitted that, shortage of funds is still the one of the biggest questions that students nowadays have to face because that tuition fees and prices of books are soaring by the day.
近几十年，尽管人们的生活有了惊人的改变，但必须承认，由于学费和书费日益飞涨，资金短缺仍然是学生们面临的最大问题之一。
capital shortage 资金短缺
inventory shortage and overage 盘亏与盘盈
Shortage 短缺
shortage of capital 资金短缺
Temporary shortages do occur, but Simon and other boomsters argue that as long as government doesn’t interfere—by mandating (指令) conservation or setting price controls —people will find alternative.
当代短缺确实出现，但西蒙和其他兴旺论者认为只要政府不干预——通过消费指令或者价格控制——人们总能找到替代品。
risk of shortage in weight/quantity 短量险
They inspected the rice for any possible shortage.
他们检查了这批大米看其是否短重。
A shortage of 50M/Ts is a big loss for us.
50公吨的短重对我们是个不小的损失。
As for the shortage, I suggest your making up the quantity in your future shipment.
至于短重，我建议你们今后发货时补上。
Have you seen the shortage claim from our company?
您看过我公司的短重索赔报告了吗？
不足 shortfall; failure; inadequate; insufficiency; lack; scarcity; shortage; deficiency
缺乏 [quē fá] /shortage/be lacking/to be short of/to lack/
缺少 [quē shǎo] /lack/shortage of/to be short (of)/to lack/
{adj: adoptable} suitable or eligible for adoption
"a shortage of adoptable babies"
<-> unadoptable
{adj: chronic} being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
"chronic indigestion"
"a chronic shortage of funds"
"a chronic invalid"
<-> acute
{adj: critical} being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
"a critical shortage of food"
"a critical illness"
"an illness at the critical stage"
<-> noncritical
{adj: endemic, endemical} of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality
"diseases endemic to the tropics"
"endemic malaria"
"food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"
<-> epidemic, ecdemic
{n: bracero} a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II
{n: cash, hard cash, hard currency} money in the form of bills or coins
"there is a desperate shortage of hard cash"
{n: crunch} a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
"an end-of-the year crunch"
"a financial crunch"
{n: dearth, famine, shortage} an acute insufficiency
{n: deficit, shortage, shortfall} the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
"new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
{n: drought, drouth} a prolonged shortage
"when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"
{n: drought, drouth} a shortage of rainfall
"farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"
{n: essential thrombocytopenia} the primary form of thrombocytopenia (rather than a shortage of platelets caused by with other conditions such as tuberculosis or chemical suppression of bone marrow etc.)
{n: famine} a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
{n: labor, labour, working class, proletariat} a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
{n: oxygen deficit} temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise
{n: stringency, tightness} a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
{n: victory garden} a kitchen garden planted during wartime to relieve food shortages
{v: entail, imply, mean} have as a logical consequence
"The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
A shortage of calcium might also contribute to the rise in blood pressure that commonly accompanies aging.
缺钙还可能促成通常因年老而出现的血压升高。
Measures announced this week in the UK budget are planned to ease the high-tech labour shortage.
英国政府本星期公布的预算方案中，采取了一些旨在缓解高技术人员短缺现象的措施。
The growing shortage of people with information technology skills is affecting all western economics, leading some companies to offer cash bonuses for referrals.
由于越来越难以找到具备信息技术技能的人，西方所有的国家均受到了影响，致使有些公司要给引荐人发放现金奖金。
Many are confident we will eventually perfect the animal-human donation and the organ shortage will be solved for ever.
许多人满怀信心地认为我们最后一定能使动物器官植入人体达到十分完善的程度，从而永远克服人体器官匾乏的困难。
If future predictions of a shortage of quality workers come true, it will become even more important to make employees feel part of the team.
如果将来高素质员工短缺的预见成为现实，要使雇员感到自己是集体不可缺少的一员就显得更为重要。
In Britain, packed emergency rooms and a shortage of beds in intensive care units have turned the flu into a political football.
在英国，由于急诊室里人满为患，特别护理病房的床位供不应求，流感竟然引发了政治上的激烈争论。
IT SKILLS Help Wanted The shortage of skilled IT workers in Europe will grow to almost 20% in 2002, according to International Data Corporation.
信息技术亟待支持据国际数据公司称， 2002年欧洲信息产业技术人员的短缺人数将增至 20%。
When the waters recede, Bangladesh will most likely be faced with a tremendous food shortage.
大水退去以后，孟加拉国多半会面临极大的缺粮问题。
"Every day, 10,000 people die because of the water-related diseases and problems and shortages," he added. "Every eight seconds, a child dies as a result of water contamination. In the past 10 years, diarrhea has killed more children than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II."
他说：“每天大约有一万人因为与水相关的疾病和问题，以及缺水等原因而死亡。每八秒钟就有一个儿童因为水污染而死亡。在过去10年里，因患痢疾死去的儿童的数量，比第二次世界大战以来在军事冲突中丧生的所有人还要多。”
A day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was questioned about the shortages by a soldier who will soon be deployed to Iraq, Army Lieutenant General Steve Whitcomb told reporters about 2,000 more fully armored Humvees are still needed. "Our goal and what we're working towards is that no wheeled vehicle that leaves Kuwait going into Iraq is driven by a solder that does not have some level of armored protection on it," he said.
一名即将调往伊拉克的士兵星期三向国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德提出了部队车辆缺乏装甲的问题。星期四，陆军中将史蒂夫·惠特科姆对媒体表示，美军仍然需要大约两 千辆装甲防护齐全的“悍马”军车。他说：“我们的目标和努力方向是，任何一名 军人驾驶的、离开科威特前往伊拉克的车辆，都不能没有某种程度的装甲防护。”
But critics of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war see the shortage of armored vehicles as an indication that the Pentagon failed to plan adequately for the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
但是，那些对布什政府对伊拉克战争处理方式持批评态度的人认为，装甲车辆的缺乏显示出五角大楼没有能够为萨达姆政权垮台后的战后局势做好充份计划。
risk of shortage 短量险
including shortage in weight in excess of 0.5%(with 0.5% franchise) on the whole consignment
包括短量损失有0.5%绝对免赔率（0.5%相对免赔率），按全部货物计算
Thank you for your order no.458 for tin plate sheets which we received today.
We regret that, owing to a shortage of stock, we are unable to fill your order.
Moreover, our manufacturers cannot undertake to entertain your order for future delivery owing to the uncertain availability of raw materials.
We will, however, contact you by telex once supply improves.In the meantime, please feel free to send us your specific enquiries for other types of metal sheets.
You can assured of our best attention at all times.
今天收到贵公司4 5 8号镀锡板的定单。
因为存货短缺，未能供应贵公司所需货品，特此致歉。
此外，制造商尚未确定原料供应量是否充足，所以不能接受其他定单。
一旦供应情况改善，我们将电传通知贵公司。
若贵公司需要其他金属薄板型号的资料，我们乐意随时效劳.
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Food shortage or surplus management or control services
食物短缺、剩余管理和调配
短少 Shortage
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