shortage

noun

1. 不足；缺少；短缺
   a situation when there is not enough of the people or things that are needed
   1. food/housing/water shortages
      食物 / 住房 / 用水短缺
   2. a shortage of funds
      资金不足
   3. 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。

1. N-VAR 不足;缺少;短缺
   If there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it.
   1. 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。
   2. Vietnam is suffering from food shortage...
      越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。
   3. There's no shortage of ideas when it comes to improving the education of children.
      谈到改善孩子教育问题，大家都想法多多。

1. The labour shortage is becoming acute.
   劳动力匮乏愈演愈烈。
2. 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。
3. There is a chronic shortage of patrol cars in this police district.
   这个治安辖区严重缺乏巡逻车辆。
4. The oil companies were accused of contriving a shortage of gasoline to justify price increases.
   石油公司被控故意制造石油短缺以名正言顺地提高油价。
5. There is a shortage of council housing
   廉租公房房源不足。
6. Exorbitant housing prices have created an acute shortage of affordable housing for the poor.
   过高的房价已经造成了穷人能够买得起的住房严重短缺。
7. Researchers found an almost total crop failure and a severe shortage of drinking water.
   研究者们发现作物几乎颗粒无收，并且饮用水严重短缺。
8. Inflation and the shortage of banknotes has forced factories to pay their workers in kind.
   通货膨胀和纸币短缺使工厂不得不以实物抵付工人的工资。
9. 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。
10. People in hospitals are dying because of shortage of medicine.
    由于药品匮乏，医院里的病人濒临死亡。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.
    有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。
14. There's a great shortage of resource materials in many schools.
    很多学校物资都十分短缺。
15. Many stations needed repairs or rebuilding and there was a shortage of rolling stock.
    许多车站需要维修或重建，而且铁路车辆也出现短缺。
16. 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。
17. Vietnam is suffering from food shortage
    越南正遭受食物短缺之苦。
18. There's no shortage of ideas when it comes to improving the education of children.
    谈到改善孩子教育问题，大家都想法多多。
19. The shortage of good stock has kept some investors away from the stock exchange.
    由于缺少优质股，一些投资人不愿涉足股票市场。
20. 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。
21. This makes the teacher shortage even more critical.
    这使师资匮乏的问题更为严重。
22. There was a critical shortage of food.
    当时粮食奇缺。
23. The going was slow on the project because of a shortage of skilled workers.
    这项工程进展缓慢，因为缺少熟练工人。
24. Because of the shortage of creosote in the United States its use continued.
    美国还在继续使用它，这是因为缺少防腐油的缘故。
25. The project was suspended due to shortage of funding.
    该工程因经费不足而歇工。
26. The rapid increase in population caused a shortage of natural resources.
    人口激增导致资源匮乏。
27. The flower withered because of water shortage.
    这两天缺水，花打蔫儿了。
28. Shortage of labour power retarded our economic development.
    缺乏劳动力使我们的经济发展速度减慢。
29. Owing to a constant shortage of raw materials, our factory has been running under capacity.
    由于原料缺乏，我们厂长期处于吃不饱状态。

  shortage absence lack want【导航词义：短缺】

  shortage n. 缺少，短缺

〔辨析〕指供小于求，即达不到需要或规定的数量。

  absence n. 缺乏；缺席

〔辨析〕指某物根本不存在或完全短缺，也指某人未在现场。

  lack n. 缺乏，不足

〔辨析〕普通用词，指完全没有或不够充足，通常用于抽象事物。

  want n. 缺乏，匮乏

〔辨析〕指完全没有或短缺某物，强调所缺之物是必需的东西，使用范围比lack 要窄一些；也指因没有食物、钱等造成的贫困。

noun

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
   1. new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit

   Synonym:    deficitshortfall

2. an acute insufficiency

   Synonym:    dearthfamine