Sounds like he just came up short.

结果功亏一篑啊。

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。

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。

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。

Oh, your research came up short.

你研究得不够透彻啊。

There was a wait of some minutes, and then a short stout man with a huge moustache came bustling down to the gate.

等了几分钟， 然后一个留着大胡子的矮胖男人匆匆忙忙地走到门口。

Trump had pretty much handpicked Mehmet Oz, Dr Oz, to be the Republican candidate there, and he came up short in the Senate race.

特朗普几乎亲自挑选了 Mehmet Oz，Oz 博士，成为那里的共和党候选人，他在参议院的竞选中落选了。

For he had almost learned the lesson that he must bend himself to her nature, and that because she came short in her sympathy, he must give the more.

因为他几乎已经学到了一个教训， 那就是他必须屈服于她的本性， 而由于她缺乏同情心， 他必须给予更多。

Well, sister Mary always goes for at least a few months, but when our funding came up short, she graciously offered to step aside, said there's plenty of god's work to do here.

Mary修女总是至少去几个月的，但我们的资金不足，她很高尚的提出退出此行，说在这里还有很多上帝的工作要做。

" I took the best and cleverest man I had ever known, " said Mrs. Garth, convinced that she would never have loved any one who came short of that mark.

“我选了我所认识的最优秀、最聪明的人，”加思太太说，她坚信她永远不会爱任何达不到那个标准的人。