喜樂美語
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    If a shop, a kitchen, or an office is shorthanded, it has fewer than the work really needs. The people still there cover extra. You can say they are shorthanded, or they are working shorthanded.

    If a shop, a kitchen, or an office is shorthanded如果一間店、一個廚房，或一間辦公室是shorthanded it has fewer helpers than the work really needs代表幫手比實際工作需要的還少 The people still there cover extra還在的人就得多分擔一些 You can say they are shorthanded, or they are working shorthanded你可以說they are shorthanded，或是they are working shorthanded

    American English likes this spelling; you will also see short-handed with a , and in Britain short-staffed is the more common twin for the same idea.

    American English likes this spelling美式英文比較喜歡這個拼法 you will also see short-handed with a hyphen你也會看到加連字號的short-handed and in Britain short-staffed is the more common twin for the same idea在英國，意思相同、比較常見的說法是short-staffed

    Ice hockey borrowed it too: a team is shorthanded when a player sits in the penalty box, so they skate with fewer people. That is still “not enough hands,” just on ice.

    Ice hockey borrowed it too冰球也借用了這個字 a team is shorthanded when a player sits in the penalty box當有球員在受罰區坐冷板凳時，這支隊伍就是shorthanded so they skate with fewer people所以他們是用比較少的人在場上滑 That is still not enough hands, just on ice這一樣是「人手不夠」，只是換到冰上而已

    It is not about left or right hand, and it is not about being short in height.

    It is not about left or right hand這個字跟左手右手沒關係 and it is not about being short in height也跟身高矮沒關係

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成short（不夠）+ handed（手上的人、幫手）。

同家族的字

  • shortfewer than you need
  • handa helper; the hands doing the work

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

shorthandedadj

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    Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.

    • The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
    • "What are you doing out here?" I asked Iris. “We shorthanded?” She smiled. “We're always shorthanded, Miss Lois.
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    Having less than a quorum.

    • Neither the code nor the case law discuss whether or how the power of a shorthanded school board should be curtailed
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    Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.

    • “Scoring a shorthanded goal gives the team a lift,” Lefley said. “We've been picking our spots and making the most of them.
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    card-gamespokerHaving fewer than the standard number of players.

    • Some of the ideas discussed in the Omaha eight-or-better section include general concepts, position, low hands, high hands, your starting hand, play on the flop, multi-way versus shorthanded play, scare cards, getting counterfeited, and your playing style.

shorthandedadv

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    In a shorthanded manner.

    • "They were working shorthanded," said one PMA official, "this company's got a policy of releasing gangs working shorthanded."
    • A player may receive a red card any time without the player first receiving a yellow card. When a player gets a red card, they must leave the game and their team must play shorthanded.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。