The numbers attending fell short of expectations.

出席的人数比预期的要少。

The rope fell short.

绳子不够长。

When Tim Joseph started his business, he found grass-fed products fell short of demand.

当蒂姆·约瑟夫开始创业时，他发现草料产品供不应求。

The leaders fell short on almost every task they set themselves.

领导者几乎没完成当初设定的任何一个任务。

First day sales of the iPad fell short of the most bullish projections.

iPad第一天的销量低于市场预期。

Wang said the company never explained why her milk fell short of standards.

王说雀巢公司从未解释过为什么她的牛奶低于标准。

Colgate-Palmolive's earnings beat forecasts, but revenue fell short of expectations.

高露洁棕榄集团财报盈利超过预期，但是收入低于预测。

We fought as hard as we could, and though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.

虽然我们没能成功，但这失败是我的，不是你们的。

In the past three years, output actually fell short: the world was eating more food than it grew.

在过去的三年中，产量实际上低于需求：世界正在吃掉比生产更多的粮食。

The study fell short of showing that touch caused the better performance, Dr. Kraus acknowledged.

Kraus博士指出，研究的简单结论就是身体接触能导致更好的表现。

But once the club's sterling income was translated into euros, it fell short of Madrid's euro 366m.

但是，当该俱乐部的英镑收入转化成欧元时，就比不上马德里的三亿六千六百万欧元了。

Even though I fell short of what was required of me, my teacher graced me with love and understanding.

尽管我没有达到要求，我的老师给予了我爱和理解。

Its latest and bravest attempt, at the end of last month, fell short of the mark-just like all the others.

在上个月末，它最近最勇敢的一次尝试也乏善可陈——正如其他那些尝试一样。

Brother Elder says Harve was too free with the old man's money — fell short in filial consideration, maybe.

埃尔德老兄说哈维花老头子的钱太随便——可能不够孝顺。

Total calcium intake was tied to advanced and fatal disease, but both associations fell short of statistical significance.

钙质的总摄入量与晚期或致命性疾病有某种联系，但这种联系缺乏统计意义。

A Republican candidate for the House in Virginia who fell short by less than 1,000 votes is refusing to concede defeat.

一位由于得到不足1000个赞成票而落败的弗吉尼亚州众议院共和党候选人拒绝承认自己败北。

Explorers had tried to reach the North Pole by ship, dogsled and balloon, but all fell short, and scores had died trying.

探险家们曾将尝试坐船、坐热气球或用狗拉雪橇来到达北极点，但都失败了，死在探险过程中的就有几十人。

Alliance organizers tried for a record last year, but their 24-hour, 16-minute game fell short of the record by 44 minutes.

阿莱·恩斯市的组织者们早在去年就曾尝试著创造新的纪录，但他们当时的比赛只持续了24小时16分，比原纪录少了44分钟。

For me, the hardest parts of being a mother were the moments of insecurity, when it seemed as though my best efforts fell short.

就我自己而言，为人母最艰难的部分就是要体验那些没有安全感的时刻。有时我会感到我所有的努力都白费了。

Yahoo! Inc., the most-visited U.S. Web portal, predicted sales that fell short of analysts' estimates after the close yesterday.

昨天美股收盘后，访问量最大的美国门户网站雅虎公司预计，公司销售额低于分析师预期。

A 2007 InformationWeek Web survey of 278 IT pros found that 32% of those using SOA said those projects fell short of expectations.

InformationWeek 2007年对278位IT专业人士进行的一次网络调查显示，有32%的SOA使用者说他们的项目没有达到期望目标。

10% fell 2.3%. The firm's third-quarter sales fell short of expectations, though Volvo swung to a net profit from a loss a year ago.

沃尔沃公司股价下跌2.3%，此前沃尔沃公布第三季度销售额低于预期，不过本季度取得净利润，好于去年同期的亏损状况。

Although the gross productivity number fell short of expectations, the make-up of the number was encouraging for a turn to job growth.

尽管总生产力数字低于预期，它的数字构成中却有令人鼓舞的工作机会增长的苗头。

If ge's industrial businesses fell short of the mark, the company's finance arm would stage a last-minute sale of assets to close the gap.

如果GE的工业部门未能达到预期目标的话，GE金融便会利用资产的清仓出售来缩小这个差距。

The company, founded in 1975, announced the cuts as it reported an 11% drop in second-quarter profits, which fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

这间成立于1975年的公司宣布裁员的同时有报道说其第二季度利润下降11%没有达到华尔街的预期。

But last Friday, faced with an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 - the strongest in Japan's seismic history - preparations fell short to save all lives.

然而上星期五，日本地震史上最强烈的一场里氏9级地震，使得这些准备工作没能挽救所有的生命。

But revenues repeatedly fell short of forecasts, so the public sector swung into a big deficit in the fiscal year to March 2002 and has stayed there ever since.

但是反复性收支预期不足导致到2002年为止财政年度公共支出产生巨大赤字，并持续保持这个水平。