short of 托福

The police are seriously short of manpower.

警方人手严重不足。

Scantiness of modesty is short of knowledge.

缺少谦虚就是缺乏知识。

Lewis tended to bowl short of a length.

刘易斯老是投球不位。

United looked woefully short of menace in attack.

联队的进攻看上去一点威胁也没有。

The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers.

英皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。

Short of a miracle, we’re certain to lose.

非发生奇迹，否则我们输定了。

The transformation has been nothing short of a miracle.

这种变化堪称奇迹。

The trouble is that we are short of money.

困难是我们资金短缺。

The hotel he recommended fell far short of our expectations.

他推荐的饭店与我们心目中的相去甚远。

She's what we call a half bath short of a cando?

就是后面那句看似语的啥意思？

I may withhold the truth at times, but I stop short of actually telling lies.

我有时候可能不说真话, 但事实上我不至于说谎的地步。

Their company was short of funds.

他们公司缺少资金。

The movie fell short of expectation.

这部影片没有人们想象中的好。

The printers are short of types.

印刷厂缺乏铅字。

Undertrick — each trick by which declarer's side falls short of fulfilling the contract (see Law 77).

宕墩——定约方未完成定约所少得（丢失）的每一墩。

The movement of young men from the country to the cities leaves the farms short of manpower.

年青人离开农村进城使得农场人力缺乏。

Contemporary, give a person with pure and fresh, lively effect, but have again coxcombical, gewgaw be short of.

现代，给人清新、活泼之效，但又有虚浮、华而不实之缺。

Remember when actor Crispin Glover went nutso on late-night television and came inches short of karate-kicking David Letterman in the jaw?

还记得克里斯平-格洛（男影星）在晚间电视节目中差一点使用空手道的踢法袭击大卫·莱特曼的下巴吗？

He saw himself first as a straddler—roughly on the scale of the Colossus of Rhodes, for he was not short of self-esteem.

他认为自己首先是个和事佬——大体上在罗德岛的太阳神的范围之内，因为他并不缺乏自尊。

If a securities firm is short of underlying securities to meet its obligations to redeliver securities, it may seek refinancing from a securities finance enterprise.

证券商为因应还券所需而无标的证券可供返还时，得向证券金融事业办理转融通。