Deficiency
[dɪ'fɪʃ(ə)nsɪ] or [dɪ'fɪʃənsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
編輯:米兰达
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Want, lack, defectiveness, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, meagreness, dearth, scarcity, DEFICIT.[2]. Failing, failure, frailty, infirmity, imperfection, foible, fault, error, weakness, weak side, blind side.
艾格尼丝編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Want, imperfection, lack, shortcoming
ANT:Fullness, abundance
編輯:梅尔维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But always there was a deficiency. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- These amounts have been somewhat less in years since then, but the appetite continues, and any deficiency in the supply is made up by enormous importation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Here Adeimantus interposes:--'No man can answer you, Socrates; but every man feels that this is owing to his own deficiency in argument. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Though _I_ have not seen much of the domestic lives of clergymen, it is seen by too many to leave any deficiency of information. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He would only show the deficiency of the others. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Yes, Joseph,' says you, here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, 'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I am afraid, therefore, that your affairs may some time or other suffer by my deficiency. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching, and the deficiency is supplied by subscription. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Thereupon he shook his head and tapped it, expressing his sense of deficiency in Joseph. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Education will correct deficiencies and supply the power of self-government. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And as the girl withdrew she added, smiling, Fortunately, I have it in my power to supply deficiencies for this once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all their deficiencies, would have been dreadful! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- On any other, if you like, for I don't set up to be a penetrating character, and am well aware of my own deficiencies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Because I am well aware of my deficiencies. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was a clerk in the office of the Adjutant-General who supplied my deficiencies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He had set out on his work with all his old animation, and felt himself strong enough to bear all the deficiencies of his married life. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In the development of the reaper one of the first deficiencies to be supplied was automatic mechanism for taking the grain from the platform. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I notice that all travelers supply deficiencies in their collections in the same way. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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