deficit

名词 deficit:

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
   同义词：shortage, shortfall
2. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
3. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
4. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)

1. The current trade deficit indicates a serious imbalance between our import and export trade.
   当前的贸易赤字表明我们的进出口贸易严重失调。
2. We have a great deficit this year.
   我们今年有很大亏损。
3. The company had a deficit of 5000 dollars.
   公司亏空了五千美元。

def.i.cit

n.（名词）

Inadequacy or insufficiency:
不足：缺乏或不够：
例句：
a deficit in grain production.
谷物产量不足

A deficiency or impairment in mental or physical functioning.
缺陷：身心功能方面的不健全
An unfavorable condition or position; a disadvantage:
失利：不利的情形或处境；弊端：
例句：
rallied from a three-game deficit to win the playoffs.
三扬比赛失利后重振旗鼓，赢得加场赛的胜利

The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage:
赤字，不足的数额：一笔钱达不到所要求或所期望的钱数所缺的数额；赤字：
例句：
large budget deficits.
大量的财政赤字

A business loss.
生意亏损：商业损失

来源：
French déficit
法语 déficit
from Latin dôficit [it is lacking] [third person sing. present tense of] dôficere [to fail, be lacking] * see defect
源自 拉丁语 dôficit [缺乏] [] dôficere的第三人称单数现在时 [缺少，不足] *参见 defect