to fall short

基本解释

Yet the strategy continues to fall short in a couple of key areas.
然而这种战略却接二连三地在几个关键领域捉襟见肘。
This year, it got the editors of the medical journal The Lancet to ponder how far health care has come over the past century, and where it continues to fall short.
这一年，对于医学期刊《柳叶刀》的编辑来说，他们仔细思索了在过去的几百年中，医疗保健是否已深入人心，以及还有哪些地方的医疗保健没有达到标准等问题。
If not reversed, these developments, together with a pace of growth that is likely to fall short of potential for a time, should lead inflation to moderate later this year and next year.
如果这样发展事态不改变，那么再加上经济增长率可能一度低于潜在水平，这些应该会使今年后期和明年的通货膨胀略有下调。

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