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

• Airports and ports often run short of warehouse space.
  机场和港口的仓储能力常常不足。
• We've run short of oil.
  我们已快把油用完了。
• Food and water have run short, Mr Edano said, and keeping the area supplied an operation carried out largely by military personnel is diverting resources from emergency efforts elsewhere.
  枝野幸男说，这一地区内食物和水的供给正变得日益紧张，并且向居民们发放这些供给主要由军事人员执行占用了其它地区的一些抢修资源。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。