come short of

基本解释

The result has certainly come short of what I expected.
这个结果确实令我大失所望。
Some tenants come short of a desirable standard in housekeeping and tidiness.
一些租户在内务和整洁方面缺乏可取的标准。
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
我们既蒙留下有进入他安息的应许，就当畏惧，免得我们中间，（我们原文作你们）或有人似乎是赶不上了。

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 I think is a real virtue but it can come at the price of demanding short term accountability.
我认为这是个优点，但是可能会,付出短期责任的代价。
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Yet the science of climate change has seemed to be derailed by climategate and the discovery of some errors in IPCC reports, even the gravest of which come far short of undermining its conclusions.
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