单词
shortcoming
读音
ˈʃɔːrtkʌmɪŋ
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英式
词根
"Shortcoming"中，“short”这一个部分的来源是英文单词“short”，表示“短的；缺少的”等等。“-coming”这部分的来源是英文单词“coming”，表示"即将到来的"。这两个部分结合起来，想象成“缺少即将到来的”便可理解为有所缺点、有所不足。
释义
n. 缺点；短处 [ 复数 shortcomings ]
例句
One shortcoming of too much work is that it may cause healthy problems.
过多工作的一个缺点是可能会引起健康问题。
Another shortcoming is that it is not applicable to certain very muscular people such as athletes and bodybuilders, who can also have artificially high BMIs.
另一个缺点是它不适用于某些肌肉发达的人，如运动员和健美运动员，他们也可以有人为的偏高身高体重指数。
But if the book has one major shortcoming, it's that the authors don't spend enough time applying a critical eye to the role of Internet businesses in these sweeping changes.
但如果说这本书有一个主要的缺点，那就是作者没有下足功夫，以批判的眼光来看待互联网企业在这些变革中所扮演的角色。
One shortcoming of too much work is that it may cause healthy problems.
过多工作的一个缺点是可能会引起健康问题。
Another shortcoming is that it is not applicable to certain very muscular people such as athletes and bodybuilders, who can also have artificially high BMIs.
另一个缺点是它不适用于某些肌肉发达的人，如运动员和健美运动员，他们也可以有人为的偏高身高体重指数。
But if the book has one major shortcoming, it's that the authors don't spend enough time applying a critical eye to the role of Internet businesses in these sweeping changes.
但如果说这本书有一个主要的缺点，那就是作者没有下足功夫，以批判的眼光来看待互联网企业在这些变革中所扮演的角色。
强化记忆
想象一个场景，无法达到期望的东西或行为（coming）就像是距离标准（short）有些距离，就像一个人跳跃到达终点（coming）的距离小了一些（short）。"Shortcoming"一词源自公元1490年左右的英格兰，最初被用来形容无法达到期望或标准的行为或事物。
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I'd like to now switch to talk aboutanother key shortcoming of today's vaccines,and that is the need to maintain the cold chain.
It is the highest lipid content that we have,but it has a shortcoming: It's short.Now you take europaea, which is the largest or the tallest plant that we have.
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