little short of

基本解釋

Chiu noted that 8% of trips in San Francisco are now made by bike – a little short of the 2010 target of 10%.
邱信福提到，目前自行車出行量占舊金山市交通出行總量的8%，離2010年10%的目標(biāo)還略有差距。
His impact in his first campaign was little short of phenomenal and his ratio of goals against strikes underlines that.
他的處子賽季簡直可以用現(xiàn)象級來形容，這點從他的進(jìn)球率就可以看出來。
Shakespearean actors need to drill their vocal chords and Miss Blanchett seemed a little short of training, but she made a likeable, vulnerable, androgynous monarch.
莎士比亞作品的演員需要訓(xùn)練他們的聲帶，而凱特似乎還未練到家，不過她詮釋了一位惹人喜愛的，敏感的，雌雄莫辨的國王。

"I think Dubai went a little bit too fast and they borrowed too much money in a very short period of time."
I won't read it since we're running a little short of time.
我就不讀了,我們剩的時間不太多了。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選
More than one-hundred men from every part of the United States had come to that little camp stopping there for a short time on their way to getting rich.

That makes it an increase of something like 500 times in a little short of 50 years.
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