short-changed

英 [ˌʃɔːt ˈtʃeɪndʒd]

美 [ˌʃɔːrt ˈtʃeɪndʒd]

v.  少找给(某人)零钱; 亏待; 克扣
short-change的过去式

双语例句

• The cashier made a mistake and short-changed him.
  收银员弄错了，少找了他钱。
• We have been short-changed by the government.
  我们被政府骗了。
• Dollar Thrifty shareholders felt they were being short-changed and that anti-trust concerns was just as much, if not more, of an issue with Hertz as it was with Avis.
  但最后，DollarThrifty股东感觉自己吃了亏，而且与安飞士一样，赫兹也得面对同样的反垄断问题。
• Of course it is tiresome to be short-changed and muddled together with visiting crowds, but I am optimistic.
  当然，小贩们少找零钱、与游客人群挤在一堆，有些令人生厌，但我还是非常乐观。
• Our children have been short-changed by the education system.
  我们的孩子被教育体制骗了。
• This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits.
  这反过来减少了我们对自己国民的投资，并催生了破纪录的财政赤字。
• I think I've been short-changed at the bar.
  我觉得酒吧没给我找够零钱。
• Students at Judge Business School in Cambridge, England, where Mr Roberts is ceo-in-residence, must feel short-changed.
  罗伯茨是英国剑桥大学（cambridge）judge管理学院的驻院首席执行官（ceo-in-residence），那里的学生一定感觉上了当。
• The talks broke down on the US belief that it was being short-changed by the flexibility in agricultural market access indicated by the EU and developing countries.
  本轮谈判之所以破裂，是因为美国认为，欧盟和发展中国家在农业市场准入方面表示出的灵活程度，未能给予美国公平的回报。
• Except it seems to me it's a further fact about human psychology that we care more about being short-changed than we do about being, as we might put it, overcompensated.
  只不过对我来说，它似乎是更进一步的人类心理学，即我们对于别人少找钱会更在意，而不会在意，过度补偿。