deficit
音标：
美音：/ˈdefɪsɪt/，英音：/ˈdefɪsɪt/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
He pointed to the president’s claims of reducing the deficit and overseeing an increase in Social Security payments as examples.
他以总统声称减少赤字和监督增加社会保障金支付为例。
—New York Times
The strategy appears to have paid off, and Mr. Zeldin has managed to reduce his 24-point deficit in the polls just months ago to as little as four points in one recent poll.
这一策略似乎取得了成效，泽尔丁先生在最近的一次民意调查中成功地将几个月前在民意调查中的 24 个百分点的差距缩小到仅 4 个百分点。
—Washington Times
Despite the revenue, the government spent even more, or around $406 billion, in October, so it ran a deficit of nearly $88 billion.
尽管有收入，但政府在 10 月份的支出更多，约为 4060 亿美元，因此赤字接近 880 亿美元。
—Washington Times
基本释意：
noun
the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
n. 亏损，赤字，不足额；（体育用语）失分数；缺乏，缺陷
同义词：
shortage,shortfall
短释义：
If you’re running a deficit, you are losing. You might be losing money or losing a game. Either way, you better make up for it.
如果你出现赤字，你就输了。您可能会赔钱或输掉一场比赛。不管怎样，你最好弥补一下。
长释义：
When the government runs on a deficit, often the loss can be offset by a raise in taxes. If you have a deficit of iron in your body, you should consider eating more spinach. The word deficit comes from the Latin deficit meaning "it is wanting." A deficit is characterized by the wanting of something missing.
当政府出现赤字时，通常可以通过增税来弥补损失。如果你体内缺铁，你应该考虑多吃菠菜。赤字一词来自拉丁语赤字，意思是“缺乏”。赤字的特征是缺少某些东西。
文学例句：
She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.”
她输了太多血，以至于一位医生在她的记录中写了一张纸条，停止所有输血，“直到她的血库缺口被弥补。”
—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
“If we do nothing — if we just carry on — 18 months from now, at the beginning of fiscal year 2018, the deficit would be four times bigger,” Mr. Weiss said.
“如果我们什么都不做——如果我们继续——18 个月后，即 2018 财年开始时，赤字将扩大四倍，”韦斯先生说。
—Metropolitan Museum of Art Plans Job Cuts and Restructuring by Robin Pogrebin
I tried it, and because men respond to macho challenges from other men with a deficit of mature judgment — think Aaron Burr vs.
我试过了，因为男人会以缺乏成熟判断力的方式应对来自其他男人的男子气概挑战——想想亚伦·伯尔 (Aaron Burr) 与
—Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This hot sauce is a killer by ???
词源：
deficit (n.)"a falling short or failure in amount," especially financially, 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 fail, be deficient," from de "down, away" (see de-) + combining form of facere "to do, make" (from PIE root dhe-"to set, put").Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
deficit (n.)“数量不足或失败”，尤其是 financially，1782 年，源自法语 déficit（17 世纪末），源自拉丁语 deficit“它缺乏”，inventory 子句中的介绍性词，第三人称单数现在时表示 deficere“失败，有缺陷”，来自 de“down，away”（参见 de-）+ facere“做，做”的组合形式（来自 PIE 词根 dhe-“设置，放置”）。相关参赛作品及更多
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