short-change

基本解释

• vt.(給顧客)少找錢；少付

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• Most people in today’s fast-paced world think that they can short-change the energy recovery process.
  在儅今快節奏的社會上大多數人認爲他們可以短期改變精力廻收過程。
• This could short-change parts of Congo, where (because of chronic civil war, which proved quite healthy for some living things) not much deforestation has taken place recently.
  這可能會虧待剛果的某些地區，那些地區最近幾年的森林砍伐已經減少（因爲長年的內戰，這証明是對生物是非常有利的）。
• Mothers and single women, in particular, short-change their contributions around the house, it said.
  媽媽們和單身女性尤其低估自己對家庭的貢獻。

原聲例句

• Some centrist Democrats, such as Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, also criticized the way the president rolled out the new defense plan, and some questioned the intelligence behind the change in strategy to focus moreon short and mid-range missiles from Iran.

權威例句

• To narrow the deficit, it will be tempted to short-change infrastructure spending, an investment that pays off slowly.
  ECONOMIST: After India's election
• Because though some will never forgive a cheater in competitive sport, many of those same people will not short-change those fighting cancer simply to spite their once hero turned fraud.
  FORBES: Doping Confession To Help Livestrong Foundation More Than Lance Armstrong's Future Personal Earnings
• He suspects that the deal will short-change taxpayers.
  ECONOMIST: Czech banking

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词组短语

短語

• short -term climatic change 短期氣候變化
• a short -change artist 大騙子

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• If someone short-changes you, they do not give you enough change after you have bought something from them.
• If you are short-changed, you are treated unfairly or dishonestly, often because you are given less of something than you deserve.

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