shorthanded

英 [ˈʃɔːtˈhændɪd]

美 [ˈʃɔrtˌhændɪd]

adj.  人手不足的

过去式：shorthanded　

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 人手不足的
  If a company, organization, or group isshort-handed, it does not have enough people to work on a particular job or for a particular purpose.
  1. We're actually a bit short-handed at the moment.
     眼下我们确实有点人手不足。

双语例句

• I heard you were a little shorthanded because of this avalanche.
  我听说由于雪崩这里人手不足。
• The integrated semi-dry stack gas desulfurization and dust removal technology for circulating fluid beds ( shorthanded DSDFP) is an evolution of traditional semi-dry desulfurization technology.
  摘要循环流化床半干法烟气脱硫除尘一体化工艺（DSDFP）是对半干法脱硫工艺的改进。
• She found herself shorthanded one key employee was on maternity leave, another had just left and the task required masterful financial modeling skills.
  帕姆手下的核心员工，一个在休产假，另一个刚刚离职，导致她现在人手严重不足，但这份工作却又需要有丰富金融建模经验的员工来做。
• I packed everything I thought might be useful here without leaving the others shorthanded.
  我把所有可能用得上的东西都带来了。
• We are shorthanded at the moment.
  我们这里正缺人。
• Since the foreign language teaching staff is shorthanded, the teaching level there still ahs a long way to go compared with the coastal area.
  但是由于外语师资力量不足，外语教学水平和沿海地区相比还有很大差距。
• They "re so shorthanded at my cousin Joe" s office that he has to wear two hats.
  这句话的意思是：我表兄乔伊的公司人手很少，他不得不同时担任两个职务。
• Shorthanded rural families with financial difficulties may have a second child after an interval of3 or more years.
  农村缺劳力的困难户可以生第二胎，两胎间隔要在三年或三年以上。
• Our construction crew has been shorthanded all summer long.
  我们建筑队整个夏天一直人手不够。
• A lot of people are on holiday this month, so we're a bit shorthanded.
  很多人这个月休假中，所以我们有一点人手短缺。