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deficit

英 ['defɪsɪt; 'diː-] 美['dɛfəsɪt]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 赤字；不足额

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复数: deficits;

中文词源

deficit 赤字

de-, 不，非，使相反。-fic, 做，词源同defect, efficient. 即没做好，出现赤字的。

英英释意

1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required

2. an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)

英文词源

deficit (n.): 1782, from French déficit (late 17c.), from Latin deficit "it is wanting," an introductory word in clauses of inventory, third person singular present indicative of deficere "to be deficient" (see deficient).

考试真题

Facing an 8.3-billion-dollar budget deficit this year, closing post offices is one of several proposals the Postal Service has put forth recently to cut costs.

A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (多动症).

We are suffering, he writes, from a serendipity deficit.

The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catalog of programs and taxes.

If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children

Peter Orszag, Obama's Budget Director, recently called the US budget deficits unsustainable and he's right.

To urge the American government to cut deficits

A simple consumption tax of, say, 5% would significantly reduce the country's huge government deficit without damaging productivity.

In the same way, a significant reduction of wasteful agricultural subsidies could also lower the deficit

What is the author's suggestion to the American public in face of the public government deficit?

When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doom saying

The children we identified as having attention difficulties were not diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (注意力缺乏多动症, ADHD), although some may have had the disorder.

You see there has been a sharp increase in Indian's balance of payment deficit.

实用场景例句

The trade balance has been in deficit for the past five years.: 过去五年来贸易状况一直是逆差。

There's a deficit of $3 million in the total needed to complete the project.: 完成这项工程所需资金中有300万元的亏空。

The team has to come back from a 2–0 deficit in the first half.: 这支队得扳回上半场0:2的落后局面。

a budget/trade deficit: 预算赤字；贸易逆差

...a deficit of 3.275 billion francs.: 32.75亿法郎的赤字

They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.: 他们已准备好削减下一财年的联邦预算赤字。

Officials were sympathetic, fearing the loss of strategic assets to foreign banks.: 官员们表示赞同, 担心战略资产会被外资银行所把持.

We have a great deficit this year.: 我们今年有很大亏损.

The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.: 董事们报告赤字为250万美元.

The company had a deficit of ＄3000.: 这家公司亏空3000美元.

Rising budget deficit is beginning to bite.: 预算赤字的不断增加开始产生不良后果.

We raised ￡100, and we need ￡200; that's a deficit of ￡100.: 我们筹措了100英镑, 而我们需要200英镑, 还缺100英镑.

The trade deficit remains the soft underbelly of the US economy.: 贸易赤字仍是美国经济的软肋。

These will be very constrained budgets designed to get the deficit down.: 这些预算旨在减少赤字，将会大大受限。

By 1973 the government deficit equalled thirty per cent of GNP.: 到1973年，政府财政赤字相当于国民生产总值的30%。

Britain's balance of payments deficit has improved slightly.: 英国的国际收支逆差已略有改善。

The US trade deficit widened to $7.59 billion in November.: 11月美国的贸易赤字扩大到75.9亿美元。

President Bush has ended the stalemate over moves to cut the country's budget deficit.: 布什总统已结束了在削减国家预算赤字的措施上形成的僵局。

The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger.: 国会预算办公室说有种种的迹象表明联邦赤字正在增加。

He promised to get to work on the state's massive deficit.: 他承诺着手解决国家庞大的财政赤字问题。

The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.: 贸易赤字是经济快速发展带来的负面产物。

The United States Congress and the President are still locked in disagreement over proposals to reduce the massive budget deficit.: 美国国会和总统就削减巨额预算赤字的提案仍持不同意见，双方僵持不下。

The deficit in Britain's balance of trade in March rose to more than 2100 million pounds.: 英国3月份的贸易逆差已经增长到21亿英镑以上。

He urged the administration and Congress to come up with a credible package to reduce the budget deficit.: 他敦促政府和国会出台一整套切实可行的方案，以缩减预算赤字。

We called up three economists to ask how to eliminate the deficit and they obliged with very straightforward answers.: 我们打电话给3位经济学家询问如何消除赤字，他们坦率地给予了答复。

The current account of the balance of payments is in deficit.: 国际收支往来账户余额为赤字。

The deficit had grown with the connivance of the banks.: 在银行的放纵之下，赤字增加了。

The luxury tax won't really do much to pare down the budget deficit.: 奢侈品税其实对削减预算赤字并不会有多少帮助。

To recap briefly, an agreement negotiated to cut the budget deficit was rejected 10 days ago.: 简要概括起来，一项关于削减预算赤字的协议在10天前遭到了否决。

He made the unfortunate mistake of promising he would quit if the budget deficit was still out of control.: 他犯了个愚蠢的错误，承诺说如果预算赤字还失控，他就辞职。