The police are seriously short of manpower.

警方人手严重足。

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。

Lewis tended to bowl short of a length.

刘易斯老是到位。

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

除非发生奇迹，否则我们输定了。

The editor is short of contributions for the May issure.

编者缺少稿件编五月号的杂志。

Scantiness of modesty is short of knowledge.

缺少谦虚就是缺乏知识。

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 still remained dangerously short of bombers.

英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。

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

我有时候可能说真话, 但事实上我至于到说谎的地步。

The trouble is that we are short of money.

困难是我们资金短缺。

The transformation has been nothing short of a miracle.

这种变化堪称奇迹。

Disease of kidney soft spot is photographed in abdominal X line piece in can show increscent kidney outline, radiography of road of vein make water shows much place plentiful is short of caustic.

肾软斑症在部x线摄片中可显示增大的肾轮廓，静脉尿路造影显示多处充盈缺损。

In hydroacoustics, it is short of an intensive investigation for the problem.So a numerical scheme for the prediction of flow-induced noise in water is expected to be established in the paper.

在气动声学领域，人们对此问题进行了很多探索，而在水声学领域，该问题尚缺乏深入的研究，文章的目的在于初步建立适用于水中流激噪声预报的数值方法。

Chronic and toxic can have ball backsight neuritis, inspect dish of oedema, retinal hemal convulsion, haemorrhage, oozy, eye shot is short of caustic and centrality stricture.

慢性中毒可有后神经炎，盘水肿，网膜血管痉挛、血、渗，缺损和向心性狭窄。

The examiners discussed your paper for at least an hour, but I’m afraid the long and the short of it is that you have failed.

考官们对你的试卷至少讨论了一个小时，但是恐怕你最后还是及格。

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。

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，因为他并缺乏自尊。

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-格洛弗（美国男影星）在晚间电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？

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

现代，给人以清新、活泼之效，但又有虚浮、华而实之缺。

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。