run short

英 [rʌn ʃɔːt]

美 [rʌn ʃɔːrt]

网络  用完; 缺少; 短缺; 不足

经济

英英释义

verb

• to be spent or finished
  1. The money had gone after a few days
  2. Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest
  Synonym:run lowgo

双语例句

• The nervousness about Chinese energy demand was exacerbated yesterday when officials said 32 power plants had been forced to close because of coal shortages, the second time this year the power industry has run short of coal.
  市场对中国能源需求的紧张昨日有所加剧。中国官员称，由于煤炭短缺，32家电厂被迫停产。这是中国电力行业今年第二次遭遇煤炭短缺。
• We've run short of oil.
  我们已快把油用完了。
• In those days ships were sometimes so delayed by contrary wind as to run short of fresh water and provisions.
  当时船因遇到逆风而迟误，以至发生淡水和粮食不足的现象。
• Go and get some more oil so we don't run short.
  去多弄些油来以免到时候用光了。
• I am sorry we have run short loose-leaf notebook.
  对不起，活页簿已售完了。
• The rising industries in material production, and particularly the burgeoning industries in nonmaterial production, often run short of workforce.
  在新兴的物质生产部门中，尤其是在日益发展的非物质生产部门中，劳动力则往往是不足的。
• Yet the IMF could soon run short of firepower.
  然而，该组织可能很快就会缺少火力。
• They argue that this is only fair as deficit countries always face the threat that they might run short of willing financiers, but countries running trade surpluses face no similar threats.
  它们辩称，由于逆差国总是面临愿意借钱给它们的债权国可能不够的威胁，而贸易顺差国却不存在此类风险，因此这样才最公平。
• People are immersed in more and more profuse data, but run short of knowledge.
  人们陷入了数据越来越丰富但知识越来越缺乏的困境。
• The empirical results show that most of the provinces run short of R& D efficiency in the high-tech industry, while there exist distinct differences among them.
  实证结果表明，我国高新技术产业研发效率整体水平偏低，各地差异显著，且大多数省份都呈现规模报酬递减；