ADJECTIVE | VERB + DEFICIT | DEFICIT + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤enormous, huge, large, massive, serious, substantial巨大的虧損;嚴重的逆差;巨額赤字➤ballooning, exploding, growing, soaring不斷膨脹的/激增的/日益增長的/猛增的赤字▸➤small小額虧損▸➤net, overall淨赤字;總赤字➤projected預計赤字▸➤balance-of-payments, budget, current-account, federal, financial, fiscal, trade國際收支逆差;預算赤字;經常賬戶逆差;聯邦赤字;財政赤字;貿易逆差➤national國家赤字➤attention, cognitive, neurological注意缺陷;認知障礙;神經功能缺損◇attention deficit disorder注意缺陷障礙◇His teacher thought he had some sort of cognitive deficit.他的老師認為他認知方面有某種缺陷。VERB + DEFICIT➤face, have, run, show面臨虧損;有赤字;出現赤字;顯示逆差◇If the government didn't run such huge deficits, the country would not have financial problems.如果政府沒有形成數額如此巨大的赤字,國家就不會有財政問題。◇The trade balance shows a deficit of two million dollars.貿易收支顯示有 200 萬美元的逆差。➤go into, move into, run up, slip into陷入虧損;積累赤字◇to prevent the country from moving into deficit防止國家陷入赤字◇The company has run up a deficit of £30 000.這家公司累計虧損了 3 萬英鎊。➤increase, widen增加/擴大赤字➤address, tackle解決/處理赤字▸➤cut, halve, narrow, reduce, shrink削減赤字;使赤字減半;減少虧空;縮小虧空◇You cannot cut a budget deficit simply by raising taxes.不能只通過增稅來削減預算赤字。➤correct, eliminate, erase, make up, wipe out糾正/消除/清除/彌補/償清虧空◇We will find it hard to make up this deficit.我們會發現很難彌補這一虧空。➤overcome克服赤字▸➤overturn (BrE, sport體育) 扭轉落後分數◇United are hoping to overturn a two-goal deficit from the first leg.聯隊希望能扭轉第一回合落後兩球的局面。➤finance, fund融資/撥款彌補赤字◇The government was forced to sell state-owned companies to fund the budget deficit.政府被迫出售國有企業以彌補預算赤字。DEFICIT + VERB➤run at sth赤字為⋯◇a budget deficit running at 7% of GDP相當於國內生產總值 7% 的預算赤字➤grow, increase, rise, widen赤字增加;虧損增多;逆差上升➤balloon, soar赤字猛增◇The US trade deficit ballooned to a record $167 billion.美國貿易逆差猛增到創紀錄的 1,670 億美元。➤decrease, fall, narrow, shrink虧損減少;逆差下降;差額縮小;赤字縮減PREPOSITION➤in deficit處於逆差中◇The UK remained in deficit with all countries outside the EU.英國對歐盟之外的所有國家都有逆差。➤deficit with對⋯的逆差◇the US trade deficit with Japan美國對日本的貿易逆差