to be short of

基本解釋

The lesson from that crisis was never to be short of reserves.
那次危機的教訓(xùn)就是永遠不要碰到外匯儲備不夠用。
Brazil is thought to be short of some 8m homes; the whole of India has fewer hotel rooms than Las Vegas; in Saudi Arabia a long-awaited mortgage law is expected to kickstart a residential boom.
通常認為在巴西，8平米的住房非常短缺；而整個印度的酒店房間數(shù)量竟比不過拉斯維加斯；在沙特阿拉伯，一項被期待已久的有關(guān)貸款的法條，很有可能將會開啟一波購房熱潮。
Brazil is thought to be short of some 8m homes; the whole of India has fewer hotel rooms than Las Vegas; in Saudi Arabia a long-awaited mortgage law is expected to kick start a residential boom.
巴西被認為存在800萬間房屋的短缺；整個印度的飯店客房數(shù)量加起來還沒有拉斯維加斯多；沙特期盼已久的抵押貸款法被認為將打開住宅市場繁榮。

Analysts say that if the Geithner plan fails to revive the financial system, there will be no alternative but short-term nationalization of distressed banks.
There is a book review, a short book review, to be written towards near the end of the class.
我們還要寫一篇簡短的書評,在臨近期末的時候完成
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
But there seems to be as much, if not maybe a bit more work in terms of part-time and short-term jobs.
但是就兼職和短期工而言，工作似乎沒變少，可能還更多了。
英國的影視產(chǎn)業(yè) - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

Some two-thirds of Paraguay's 4m people were said to be short of food.
ECONOMIST: Andres Rodriguez