1·I'm afraid we are really short staffed this week, Mr. Crandal.
恐怕这星期我们的确人手不够，克兰道先生。
2·The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
这所医院人手极为短缺。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·He added: "the other consequence is that if loads of staff go off with swine flu that will leave us short-staffed, which is dangerous to patients."
他补充说：“另一个后果就是，如果大量员工因猪流感而离职，我们会人手短缺，这对病人来说非常危险。”
4·Sometimes they're short-staffed and can't find anyone to wheel you back right away.
有时候医院不够人手就找不到人马上推回来病房.
5·The Royal College of Midwives has warned that it is dangerously short-staffed when it comes to delivering little Britons.
皇家助产士学会警告说，接生医务者的短缺是非常危险的。
6·The Ministry of Magic's Muggle Liaison Office was short-staffed, and no one had read the Muggle newspapers all that week.
魔法部的麻瓜联络处的人手永远短缺，因此，整整一周没人阅读那些麻瓜报纸也就不奇怪了。
7·Thin trading made for a lackluster day on Wall Street, with desks short-staffed before the Memorial day holiday that will keep U. S. markets closed on Monday.
交易稀少导致了华尔街暗淡的一天，将士阵亡纪念日假期前办公室人手不足将导致美国市场周一持续关闭。
8·With the economic downturn, there's been a fresh boom across the country in volunteer cadres of citizens taking on some of the routine duties of short-staffed police departments.
由于时下经济不景气，美国各地普通居民志愿者承担警察局某些日常工作的事例又一下子多了起来。
9·We're very short - staffed in the office this week.
本星期我们办公室人手不够。
10·Sounds like a win-win. But in order to avoid leaving the restaurant short-staffed, Hai-Di-Lao has limited the number of deliveries at one time.
听起来像是双赢。但是为了避免餐馆人手不足，海底捞限制了每次叫外卖的数量。