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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

  • Super crops won't be enough& the planet will run short of food by2030 unless we invest to avoid an imminent world water crisis, says Colin Chartres.
    ColinChartres说,只有超级作物并不够&到2030年地球将缺乏粮食,除非我们投入资金以避免巨大的世界水危机。
  • 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。
  • But if they are too soft, their own companies may run short.
    但如果心太软的话,他们自己的公司也许会出现资金短缺。
  • It seems that people are always in a hurry now, though we do have more convenience. Still, we run short of time to stand and stare, to speak and share.
    虽然现在我们的生活确实越来越方便了,但人们似乎总是很忙,依然缺少时间停下来对视、交谈与分享。
  • Even those European countries that are taking part began to run short of munitions, just 11 weeks into the fighting forcing an exasperated America to step into the breach.
    即使是那些参战的欧洲国家,也在战斗打响仅仅11周之后就开始耗尽弹药,迫使被激怒的美国挺身而出。
  • They are afraid that the world will soon run out of oil and run short of food.
    他们担心人类不久会用完石油、发生食品短缺!但有些人则持乐观的看法。
  • 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。
  • If the car owners happen to run short of this backup coolant, they will need to add more coolant until it reaches the maximum limit indicator.
    如果车主碰巧跑达不到这个备份冷却,他们将需要增加更多的冷却直至达到最大限度的指示器。
  • At that burn rate, GM could effectively run short of cash next summer, without even taking into account further sales declines.
    按照这个消耗速度,通用汽车明年夏季就会出现现金短缺,这还没有考虑未来销量进一步下降的因素。
  • 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。