單詞
shortage
英 ['???t?d?]
美['??rt?d?]
基本信息
- n. 缺乏，缺少；不足
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考試真題
- But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.
出自-2017年6月聽(tīng)力原文
- Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- The author has come to agree that food shortages could ultimately lead to the collapse of world civilization.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Social order is breaking down in many countries because of food shortages.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the world's grain production.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Environmental problems must be solved to ease the current global food shortage.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But water shortages are even more worrying in India.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But as the nursing shortage worsens, a growing number of schools and hospitals are establishing "fast-track programs" that enable college graduates with no nursing experience to become registered nurses with only a year or so of specialized training.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- Solutions to global fuel shortage.
出自-2013年6月聽(tīng)力原文
- since the current world food shortage is trend-driven, the environmental trends that cause it must be reversed.
2016年6月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
2016年6月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.
2018年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）聽(tīng)力 Section A
- Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.
2018年12月四級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section C
- For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄爾尼諾) weather phenomenon in decades.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- We aren't suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we're suffering from a lack of policy resolve.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- The government also established a stockpile (貯存) of oil as a short-term buffer (緩沖) against future shortages.
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
- In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service.
出自-2010年12月閱讀原文
- Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of farm members.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第三套）閱讀 Section B
- In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.
2017年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- Now, Africa's largest economy is facing a food crisis as major tomato fields have been destroyed by an insect, leading to a nationwide shortage and escalating prices.
2017年12月六級(jí)真題（第一套）閱讀 Section A
- There was a shortage of check in desks.
2019年12月六級(jí)真題（第二套）聽(tīng)力 Section C
- The loss of big trees was greatest in areas where trees had suffered the greatest water shortage.
2019年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文
- Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.
2017年考研真題（英語(yǔ)二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- One oft-debated cure for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native U.S.
2019年考研真題（英語(yǔ)二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The shortage is compounded by federal immigration raids, which remove some workers and drive others underground.
2019年考研真題（英語(yǔ)二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
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