deficit是什么意思,deficit怎么用

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📰 外刊例句

Akili Interactive, a startup, plans to seek regulatory approval for a video game designed to stimulate an area of the brain implicated in attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder. 一家名为 Akili Interactive 的创业公司,计划让一款设计用来刺激与注意力缺陷多动症有关的大脑区域的电子游戏获得监管部门批准。

—— 《经济学人》


📖 基本释义

[noun] the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small
[名词] 某物(尤指一笔钱)过于不足的数额


💡 深入解读

Being shackled by a huge foreign debt and its attendant balance-of-payments deficit is the crux of the country's economic problems.Deficit 是一个经常在《经济学人》以及政府工作报告等中出现的单词,常用在经济领域表示“赤字、逆差、亏损”,即在一定时期内,支出或负债超过收入或资产的部分,比如:被巨额外债以及随之而产生的国际收支赤字所困是那个国家经济问题的症结所在。

该词源自拉丁语deficit(缺乏的),最早于1782年经法语déficit进入英语后即用作名词表示其本义指数量上的“缺乏、不足”,尤指财务上的“不足额、缺款额”,也可以指能力或功能上的“缺乏、缺陷”,常意味着因缺口较大而造成某物远不足够满足所需或预期,

比如:

There's a deficit of $8 million in the total needed to complete the project.完成这项工程所需资金中有800万美元的缺口。

The team came back from a 2–0 deficit in the first half and inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team.而将这个概念用在体育比赛中时, deficit 还可以指“落后、失利”,主要用来表示个人运动员或整个球队的输球数量或输掉的比分,比如:这支队扳回了上半场0:2的落后局面,并使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。

That deficit is larger than the entire federal budget in 1957.影视用例查看视频请点击:阅读原文

The Pursuit of Happyness )。这个赤字比1957年整年联邦预算还高。出自2006年上映的美国励志剧情片《当幸福来敲门》(

shortfall: a deficit of something required or expected deficiency: a lack or shortage shortage: a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts同近义词


🔍 同近义词

  • shortfall: a deficit of something required or expected
  • deficiency: a lack or shortage
  • shortage: a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts
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