to fall short

基本解釋

Yet the strategy continues to fall short in a couple of key areas.
然而這種戰(zhàn)略卻接二連三地在幾個關鍵領域捉襟見肘。
This year, it got the editors of the medical journal The Lancet to ponder how far health care has come over the past century, and where it continues to fall short.
這一年，對於毉學期刊《柳葉刀》的編輯來說，他們仔細思索了在過去的幾百年中，毉療保健是否已深入人心，以及還有哪些地方的毉療保健沒有達到標準等問題。
If not reversed, these developments, together with a pace of growth that is likely to fall short of potential for a time, should lead inflation to moderate later this year and next year.
如果這樣發(fā)展事態(tài)不改變，那麼再加上經(jīng)濟增長率可能一度低於潛在水平，這些應該會使今年後期和明年的通貨膨脹略有下調(diào)。

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