When food is in short supply, a ruminant can last longer than a nonruminant because it can derive more energy out of the same food.
当食物短缺时，反刍动物比非反刍动物寿命更长，因为反刍动物可以从同样的食物中获得更多的能量。
For instance, if a product is expected to be short in supply, should the company put on an extra shift or outsource?
例如，如果某产品预计会出现供应短缺的情况，公司是否应该加班弥补或者将工作外包？
High costs limit many technological solutions: Water desalination, for example, is not only expensive but requires a huge amount of energy, another resource in short supply.
高额的成本限制许多解决方案：如水脱盐不仅需要高额的花费，而且要求巨大的能源，这同样也是个缺乏的资源。
In the short run, there is little scope for increasing the supply of corn in response to a global increase in demand.
与需求的全球性增长相比，短期内玉米供应的增长空间有限。
In this way, you can "short circuit" the process and supply your own data for a given public or system ID.
使用这种方法，可以“缩短”处理进程，并向给定的公共标识或系统标识提供您自己的数据。
It could be a key factor in determining where the company — or its competitors — will expand and where engineering talent might be in short supply.
汇率有可能是决定这家公司(或者其竞争者)在哪里拓展业务，以及哪里的工程人才处于短缺状态的关键因素。
However, since demand is actually quite insensitive to price in the short run, it takes a very large price rise to bring global demand into line with supply.
但是，由于短期内需求实际上对价格十分不敏感，因此就需要非常明显的价格上涨才能使全球需求与供应保持一致。
Doctors were in short supply and he was hustled into the job without much of a background check.
那时候医生非常短缺，在没有对他进行背景检查的情况下就被推入了海军。
To add a further problem, second line treatments for these diseases are expensive and in short supply.
此外，还有另一个问题，即针对这些疾病的二线治疗费用很高，而且供应短缺。
This means that using their results to say anything of practical import needs care and caveats, both of which can often be in short supply, or stripped out to make a point.
这意味着赋予它们的结论现实意义时，需要小心和注意。 不过这两点经常是供应不足或是因为特别重视某一事情而忽略。
Many policymakers in emerging markets view the rise in inflation as a short-term supply shock and so see little need to raise interest rates.
新兴市场的许多政策制定者认为上升的通胀由短期供给缺乏引起，所以没人认为有必要提高利率。
That may be in short supply, because Hamas, deeply embedded in Gazan society both as a fighting force and a provider of social services, seems highly likely to survive in some form after this war.
这可就有点儿供不应求了，因为哈马斯是一只根深于加沙社会的战斗部队，同时也为社会提供服务，所以极有可能以某种形式在这场战争后存活下来。
At present artemisinin is expensive and in short supply because its only source is sweet wormwood, a Chinese medicinal plant.
目前，由于青蒿素的唯一来源是一种叫艾蒿的中草药，因此其价格昂贵且供不应求。
Because electricity is in short supply, there are hardly any lights at all — a couple of bulbs here and there, and the headlights of passing buses.
因为电力的短缺，基本上看不到灯光——除了零星的几点外，就只有路上行驶公交车的头灯。
It is not another performer this time, but a friend from London who has managed to get a plane ticket - which are in desperately short supply - and will manage to make it to the celebrations.
这次不是另一位演员，而是一位来自伦敦的朋友设法搞到了机票——这东西非常短缺——这将使他有可能来参加庆典。
In the Internet age of unlimited information, clear truths and facts are often in short supply, a problem frequently exacerbated by performers in the blogosphere and the 24-hour news cycle.
在信息泛滥的互联网时代，明白无误的真理与事实常常供不应求，这一问题因博客圈及24小时滚动新闻操作者的作为而陷于频密地恶质化。
Marketmakers, who are responsible for providing liquidity in trading situations, must often take naked short positions when there is more demand for a stock than supply.
市商们，即那些在交易过程中负责流通环节的人，就必须经常在一支股票供不应求的时候处于空头卖空的状态。
A study of a solar-powered blood pressure monitor finds it can be an effective tool in places where electricity - and even batteries - can be in short supply.
对太阳能血压计的研究显示，这种血压计在那些缺少电力或者电池的地方可以发挥大作用。
Nor did Harley's famous brand strength buffer it when its bikes were no longer in short supply and demand hit a wall.
当摩托车不再供不应求、需求骤降时，哈雷知名的品牌实力也没有起到缓冲作用。
Before that day in 1979, he was just a bearded racist in a country where such people were hardly in short supply.
1979年以前，他蓄着胡须，有着种族偏见，在那个国家，这样的人并不少见。
But although workers are in short supply in the south, thanks mainly to a property boom, only 6,000 Turkish-Cypriots commute to work in the south.
尽管南方劳动力短缺，但由于房价高涨，仅有6,000土族人到南部通勤上班。
With Euro Zone growth grinding to a halt and further afield in places like Japan, where the economy has officially joined the ranks of countries in recession, optimism is in short supply.
随著欧元区的经济陷入停滞，再加上日本等其他国家经济不是出轨就是衰退，人们很难感到乐观。
Short term, yeah, there's going to be a problem with supply in Japan. But, I think it will be corrected fairly quickly.
他说：“就短期来说日本的原油需求是一个问题，但是这会很快过去。
And products with a price below 5000 yuan are in short supply.
而且低于5000元的产品供不应求。
At the moment, diesel is in short supply and there is a glut of fuel oil.
目前，柴油供应张，而燃油却供应过多。
However, a just-in-time supply chain is more vulnerable to the short-term disruptions caused by the volcano's airborne ash.
但这一模式也使得供应链在火山灰导致的短期航运中断中显得更加脆弱。
The plan was put forward by Drayson, a racing car enthusiast, as a project to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, who are in desperately short supply in the UK.
这个计划是由Drayson提出的，他热衷于赛车（赛车爱好者）。 该计划是个项目，用来激励新一代科学家和工程师， 而这些人是现在英国最短缺的（人才）。
The plan was put forward by Drayson, a racing car enthusiast, as a project to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, who are in desperately short supply in the UK.
这个计划是由Drayson提出的，他热衷于赛车（赛车爱好者）。 该计划是个项目，用来激励新一代科学家和工程师， 而这些人是现在英国最短缺的（人才）。
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