deficiency

英[di'fiʃənsi]美[di'fiʃənsi]

n.
1. 缺乏，不足，短缺
2. 缺点；缺陷

同：	[n.] inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, want
反：	[n.] adequacy, sufficiency

Things will go much better if people of the same trade make up the other's deficiency from their own surplus.
同行业之间互通有无，调剂余缺，事情就好办得多了。收藏
This cannot be explained away as a coarse Western deficiency; though his taste swung from joyous profanity to extremes of prudishness.
说这是粗鲁的西部人的缺点是解释不通的;虽然他的趣味从快快活活的亵渎神灵到一丝不苟的一本正经。收藏
To make up deficiency by funds elsewhere.
移东就西。收藏
Hard to avoid deficiency.
替漏难免。收藏
In sheer numbers, iron is the most prevalent micronutrient deficiency, with nearly 1990 million people being anemic and 3600 million iron- deficient.
缺铁是微量元素缺乏症最常见的一种病，有近19.9亿人患贫血，有36亿人缺铁。收藏

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the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- there is a serious lack of insight into the problem
- water is the critical deficiency in desert regions
- for want of a nail the shoe was lost
[同] deficiency, lack, want
lack of an adequate quantity or number
- the inadequacy of unemployment benefits
[同] deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
[反] adequacy, sufficiency

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