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

• When vital supplies of food or oil run short, two things happen-prices rise as do tensions about who gets what.
  当粮食和石油短缺，有两个情况会发生&价格攀升和因争取资源而产生的磨擦。
• Airports and ports often run short of warehouse space.
  机场和港口的仓储能力常常不足。
• 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。
• For example, we can invent cars that: can save fuel or use other types of energy so that cars can still 'be used even though resources run short.
  例如，我们可以发明节油或者消耗其他燃料的车，即使能源紧缺依然可以使用。
• We've run short of oil.
  我们已快把油用完了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• No learner has ever run short of subjects to explore.
  爱学习的人从来不会觉得缺乏研究的课题。
• 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。