shortfall

The bank is justified in dishonoring a cheque for insufficiency (inadequacy, shortage, shortfall) of funds in his customer's account.

因为客户帐户上的资金（寸头）不足，银行拒付支票款项是合法的。

One of the ways Greece is trying to make up its budget shortfall is to lower the pay floor for those who were just joining the workforce.

希腊试图弥补预算差额的方法之一就是降低劳工的工资的最低标准。

THIS would seem to be the week when economists argue that a shortfall in investment is the main problem with the American economy.

这看上去将会是如此的一周：经济学家们在为投资量的下滑是美国经济遇到的主要问题。

But he could still get injured - and if he did, Arsenal would be unable to make up the goals shortfall from any other source.

但是他仍然有受伤的可能--如果他真的受伤，阿森纳将无法从其他地方拟补他的进球。

It still isn't known to regulators if any shortfall is the result of money being deliberately diverted by the company, the official said.

这位官员说，监管层还不知道是不是全球曼氏金融故意转移资金造成了这种可能存在的亏空。

The implication was that there was no meaningful shortfall in client funds.

言下之意是客户资金不存在真正意义上的亏空。

Sony is trying to rectify that shortfall by lining up expensive new installments of its "Spider-Man" and "Men in Black" series.

索尼公司正试着通过编制新的高价的蜘蛛侠和黑衣人系列分册来填补亏损。

I had to dip into it a couple of times over the initial months but since then, the shortfall has been replenished.

在起初的几个月里，我被迫几次动用这笔资金，但此后这个缺口就又被补上了。

The deals limited competition and required the state to make up the company's shortfall if it failed to earn a 15% return on capital.

此协议限制了竞争，并且要求政府在公司的资本回报率低于15%时，补偿该公司的赢利差额。

Pig organs are of a similar size to human organs, and some scientists hope they might be used to help meet the shortfall.

猪的器官大小与人的器官相似，一些科学家希望它们可用于弥补器官短缺问题。

But even then it was unlikely to be enough to make up the current shortfall in power.

但即便如此，仍可能不足以填补目前的电力短缺。

It remains to be seen how much, if any, of the shortfall will be made up by increased production from Saudi Arabia and others.

这就要看到底有多少差额可以从沙特阿拉伯和其他地方的增产中得到弥补。

A commercially hosted UHF payload was one of the solutions described to mitigate the shortfall in UHF capability.

商用超高频载荷是其中解决方案之一，以减轻超高频的能力不足问题。

He did not heed the warning signs as household savings fell, a current-account deficit persisted and a budget shortfall emerged.

他没有注意到许多警告，如家庭储蓄下降，经常账户持续赤字以及所出现的预算不足。

Porsche racked up more than $12 billion in debt trying to takeover VW, leaving the company with a rather large $3. 5 billion cash shortfall.

保时捷累积超过120亿美元的债务试图收购大众，离开公司的一个相当大三十五万点零零万美元现金短缺。

Not since the euro was created has there been such a big shortfall and there appear to be several factors at work.

自欧元问世以来，还从未出现这么大的缺口，究其原因，似乎有几个因素起了作用。

The actual cash shortfall is usually not that important: the borrower can simply raise the additional money at a later date.

实际的现金不足通常不是那么重要：借款人可以在晚些日子再筹措资金。

Similarly a shortfall in a given year can be made up in the following year.

同样，某一年的捐赠不足也可以在随后的年度内补足。

The extra money is needed to help plug an estimated shortfall of $400m a year in the IMF's current income and expenses by 2010.

在2010年之前，IMF需要得到额外资金，帮助填补目前每年4亿美元的收支缺口。

In such a scheme, friends and neighbours have to make up the shortfall if someone can't pay.

在该计划中，如果有人不还款，朋友和邻居就必须弥补差额。