Deficiency

(n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

编辑:米兰达

• If there is a deficiency, which there always is, it is provided for in the supplies of the ensuing year. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But always there was a deficiency. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• These amounts have been somewhat less in years since then, but the appetite continues, and any deficiency in the supply is made up by enormous importation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here Adeimantus interposes:--'No man can answer you, Socrates; but every man feels that this is owing to his own deficiency in argument. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Though _I_ have not seen much of the domestic lives of clergymen, it is seen by too many to leave any deficiency of information. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He would only show the deficiency of the others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Yes, Joseph,' says you, here Pumblechook shook his head and hand at me, 'he knows my total deficiency of common human gratitoode. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I am afraid, therefore, that your affairs may some time or other suffer by my deficiency. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• To obviate the deficiency, pack mules were hired, with Mexicans to pack and drive them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching, and the deficiency is supplied by subscription. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Thereupon he shook his head and tapped it, expressing his sense of deficiency in Joseph. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• After all, Watson, said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There was no other merit in this, than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Education will correct deficiencies and supply the power of self-government. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And as the girl withdrew she added, smiling, Fortunately, I have it in my power to supply deficiencies for this once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all their deficiencies, would have been dreadful! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And to bear with my infirmities, Jane: to overlook my deficiencies. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On any other, if you like, for I don't set up to be a penetrating character, and am well aware of my own deficiencies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Because I am well aware of my deficiencies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His very deficiencies bring out starkly certain qualities that lurk suppressed and hidden in us all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a clerk in the office of the Adjutant-General who supplied my deficiencies. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He had set out on his work with all his old animation, and felt himself strong enough to bear all the deficiencies of his married life. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In the development of the reaper one of the first deficiencies to be supplied was automatic mechanism for taking the grain from the platform. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I notice that all travelers supply deficiencies in their collections in the same way. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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