run short
英 [rʌn ʃɔːt]
美 [rʌn ʃɔːrt]
网络 用完; 缺少; 短缺; 不足
英英释义
verb
- to be spent or finished
- The money had gone after a few days
- Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - This is the happy challenge faced by the Asian Development Bank, which will run short of customers as one country after another reaches middle-income status.
这正是亚洲开发银行（AsianDevelopmentBank）面临的可喜挑战。随着一个又一个国家相继达到中等收入水平，亚行将面临客户短缺的问题。 - 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。 - 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。 - Yet the IMF could soon run short of firepower.
然而，该组织可能很快就会缺少火力。 - They argue that this is only fair as deficit countries always face the threat that they might run short of willing financiers, but countries running trade surpluses face no similar threats.
它们辩称，由于逆差国总是面临愿意借钱给它们的债权国可能不够的威胁，而贸易顺差国却不存在此类风险，因此这样才最公平。 - All this in a new country where there is no mum to do your washing, nor a kindly and sympathetic relative to help you out when you run short of money.
而且还是在一个陌生的国度，没有母亲帮你洗衣服，缺钱花的时候也没有和善的亲戚帮你度过难关。 - In those days ships were sometimes so delayed by contrary wind as to run short of fresh water and provisions.
当时船因遇到逆风而迟误，以至发生淡水和粮食不足的现象。 - We've run short of oil.
我们已快把油用完了。