to be short of

常见例句

The lesson from that crisis was never to be short of reserves.
那次危機的教訓就是永遠不要碰到外滙儲備不夠用。
Brazil is thought to be short of some 8m homes; the whole of India has fewer hotel rooms than Las Vegas; in Saudi Arabia a long-awaited mortgage law is expected to kickstart a residential boom.
通常認爲在巴西，8平米的住房非常短缺；而整個印度的酒店房間數量竟比不過拉斯維加斯；在沙特阿拉伯，一項被期待已久的有關貸款的法條，很有可能將會開啓一波購房熱潮。
Brazil is thought to be short of some 8m homes; the whole of India has fewer hotel rooms than Las Vegas; in Saudi Arabia a long-awaited mortgage law is expected to kick start a residential boom.
巴西被認爲存在800萬間房屋的短缺；整個印度的飯店客房數量加起來還沒有拉斯維加斯多；沙特期盼已久的觝押貸款法被認爲將打開住宅市場繁榮。

Analysts say that if the Geithner plan fails to revive the financial system, there will be no alternative but short-term nationalization of distressed banks.
There is a book review, a short book review, to be written towards near the end of the class.
我們還要寫一篇簡短的書評,在臨近期末的時候完成
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選
But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.
但是就兼職和短期工而言，工作似乎沒變少，可能還更多了。
英國的影眡産業 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

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All had gathered dust while schools were supposed to be short of supplies.
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But the top brass in Brussels seem to be short of an alternative, which is creating fear among investors.
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