shortage-主題

shortage

['ʃɔ:tidʒ]

n.不足, 缺少

例句與用法：

There was a shortage of oxygen at the top of the mountain.

山頂上缺氧。

The bad harvest led to severe food shortage.

歉收引起食物嚴重短缺。

The lack of rain aggravated the already serious shortage of food.

乾旱少雨使原本就很嚴重的糧食短缺問題更加嚴重。

Continuance of the war will mean shortage of the food.

戰爭的持續意味著食品短缺。

Power shortage browned out those cities that winter.

那年冬天，由於電力供應不足那些城市採取了節約用電措施。

He always bemoans the shortage of funds for research.

他總是嘆息研究經費不足。

The company's main problem is the shortage of skilled personnel.

這家公司的主要問題是缺少有技術的人員。

The war was lost because of a shortage of munitions.

戰爭因軍火不足而失敗。

英文解釋:

名詞 shortage:

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

同義詞：deficit, shortfall

an acute insufficiency

同義詞：dearth, famine

以上來源於大辭典