Sounds like he just came up short.

结果功亏一篑啊。

By this measure, too, the regional associations have come up short.

区域联盟通过实施这一措施也无法达成目标。

A lot of people have tried, but definitions have always come up short.

很多人都试过，但这些定义都有不足之处。

We have to swing for the fences, or we will come up short.

我们必须未雨绸缪，否则我们到时候会捉襟见肘。

And when Melvyn came up short at the register, look who slipped the cashier the difference.

当Melvyn出现在收银台前钱不够时，看看是谁偷偷塞给收银员差价。

Yet as a contribution to the contemporary debate over gun rights, " The Second" comes up short.

然而，作为对当代枪支权利辩论的一项贡献，《第二》缺少了一点东西。

Uh, three times… - I'm sorry, but every way you look at it, Dylan comes up short.

三乘… … - 不好意思，不过不管你怎么看，迪兰的钱数不对（不够格）。

And the experienced opened my eyes to the ways that the law can protect children or come up short.

这一经历让我认识到法律在保护儿童方面的力量和不足。

Overwhelmingly, at all ages, people's future estimates of change came up short compared to the changes their older counterparts recalled.

无论年龄大小，压倒性的结论是，与年龄较大的人回忆起来的变化相比，人们对未来变化的估计是很小的。

In those places, we're still coming up short.

在那些地方， 我们仍然做不到。

Revenue rose last quarter, but it came up short of forecasts.

上个季度收入有所增长， 但低于预期。

Four came up short. Two were yours.

有四个军火库的炸药数目对不上 其中两个是你的。

But none of that matters because in the end his total comes up short.

但这些都不重要，因为最终他的总数不足。

Oh, your research came up short.

你研究得不够透彻啊。

" And this is just a sliver of the consequences if we come up short on raising enough funds, " she said.

她说，" 如果我们募集不到足够的资金，那么这些后果只是冰山一角罢了" 。

And vehicle deliveries coming up short might not have come as a huge surprise for chief executive Elon Musk.

对于首席执行官埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 来说， 车辆交付不足可能并不令人感到意外。

The expression " to come up short" means to disappoint, not to be as good as someone expects you to be.

“to come up short” 这个表达的意思是失望， 而不是像别人期望的那样好。

International charities say they are disappointed that a pledge by world leaders to provide 5 billion dollars to boost global education has come up short.

国际慈善机构表示，他们对世界各国领导人未能做到提供50亿美元以促进全球教育的承诺感到失望。

But attempts to find those special biological mechanisms -- whether physiological, neurological, genetic -- that make language possible have all come up short.

但寻找那些使语言成为可能的特殊生物机制——无论是生理的、神经的还是遗传的——的尝试都没有成功。

Fine, but only on the condition that if your so-called proof comes up short, you'll agree to drop this once and for all.

好 但有个前提如果你所谓的证据不足以证明事实，那你就要放弃这个猜测。