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
Rickets (or vitamin D deficiency) ：Disease of infancy and childhood characterized by defective bone growth due to lack of vitamin D.
佝偻病(亦作维生素D缺乏病):婴幼儿疾病，特征是骨骼发育不全，因为缺乏维生素D。收藏
Hard to avoid deficiency.
替漏难免。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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