short-changed

英 [ˌʃɔːt ˈtʃeɪndʒd]

美 [ˌʃɔːrt ˈtʃeɪndʒd]

v.  少找给(某人)零钱; 亏待; 克扣
short-change的过去式

双语例句

• Our children have been short-changed by the education system.
  我们的孩子被教育体制骗了。
• The cashier made a mistake and short-changed him.
  收银员弄错了，少找了他钱。
• She complained he had short-changed her, but it was only a matter of a few pence.
  她抱怨说他少找钱了，但只是几便士之差。
• As for being short-changed, I doubt that you personally paid for your nursery education.
  至于投入和回报不成比例，我不相信是你自己支付的幼儿园教育费用。
• Looking back at all the money invested in my more than 20 years of formal education, I feel short-changed by my income and quality of life.
  回顾20多年来接受正式教育投入的资金，我感到自己没有从收入和生活质量中得到相应回报。
• Women are in fact still being short-changed in the press.
  实际上女性在新闻界仍然没有受到公平对待。
• Dollar Thrifty shareholders felt they were being short-changed and that anti-trust concerns was just as much, if not more, of an issue with Hertz as it was with Avis.
  但最后，DollarThrifty股东感觉自己吃了亏，而且与安飞士一样，赫兹也得面对同样的反垄断问题。
• We have been short-changed by the government.
  我们被政府骗了。
• That's the second time I've been short-changed in that shop.
  那家铺子少找钱给我已是第二次了。
• I think I've been short-changed at the bar.
  我觉得酒吧没给我找够零钱。