| 单词 | short of (doing) something |
| 释义 | short of (doing) somethingshort of (doing) something IFwithout actually doing something 除非（做）某事 Short of locking her in her room, he couldn’t really stop her from seeing Jack. 他实在没有办法阻止她去见杰克，就差把她锁在房里了。 Examples from the Corpus short of (doing) something• A pair to fit wellies which reach right up to the knee cost a penny short of a fiver.• San Francisco may be running short of characters, but new communities pop up every day.• Apart from Ferkhan, everybody was short of food.• Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.• The company said its earnings would fall short of previous expectations mainly because of lower earnings from its Gulf Printing unit.• Short of selling the house, I don't know how we're going to get that amount of money.• That is nothing short of stupidity.• The House vote fell well short of the 291 required to override a veto. → short of (doing) something at short3(10) |
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