little short of

基本解释

Chiu noted that 8% of trips in San Francisco are now made by bike – a little short of the 2010 target of 10%.
邱信福提到，目前自行车出行量占旧金山市交通出行总量的8%，离2010年10%的目标还略有差距。
His impact in his first campaign was little short of phenomenal and his ratio of goals against strikes underlines that.
他的处子赛季简直可以用现象级来形容，这点从他的进球率就可以看出来。
Shakespearean actors need to drill their vocal chords and Miss Blanchett seemed a little short of training, but she made a likeable, vulnerable, androgynous monarch.
莎士比亚作品的演员需要训练他们的声带，而凯特似乎还未练到家，不过她诠释了一位惹人喜爱的，敏感的，雌雄莫辨的国王。

"I think Dubai went a little bit too fast and they borrowed too much money in a very short period of time."
I won't read it since we're running a little short of time.
我就不读了,我们剩的时间不太多了。
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More than one-hundred men from every part of the United States had come to that little camp stopping there for a short time on their way to getting rich.

That makes it an increase of something like 500 times in a little short of 50 years.
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