Yet humans often fall short of this ideal.(然而，人類經常達不到這種完美。)

Demand would fall short of supply, leaving willing workers on the shelf.(需求將少于供給，使樂于工作的工人無所事事。)

Nonetheless, supplies still fall short of the need.(盡管如此，這些用品仍然供不應求。)

We should be aware that our imagination has this built-in feature, the blind spot, which makes our predictions fall short of reality.(我們應該意識到，我們的想象力擁有這個固有的特征，也就是盲點，這使得我們的預測與現實不符。)

So if the cash flows fall short of the interest payments, they need to be restructured — at a big cost to the investors who own them.(因此一旦現金流不及利息支出所需，這些證券就面臨重組——而持有這些債券的投資者將付出高昂代價。)

They fall short of the full panoply of skills that would come under the rubric of 'good thinking'.(IQ測試不能反映出進行‘優秀的思考’所需要的全部技能。)

Web development frameworks often promise to simplify and speed application development, but many fall short of that goal.(Web開發框架常常承諾簡化和加快應用程序開發，但是許多框架都沒有實現這個目標。)

“Without further progress on rebalancing global demand, global growth rates will fall short of potential,” Mr. Geithner wrote.(“沒有進一步的全球需求再平衡，全球增長率將完全跌落至潛力線之下”，蓋特納先生寫道。)

And notice how ordinary empirical social arrangements fall short of perfect justice.(并且意識到普通的現實社會制度，是多么的缺乏完美的正義。)

Sometimes we think we’re giving 100 percent to a cause and we’ll fall short of the talented tenth needed to obtain what we want.(有些我們認為已經為之付出百分百熱血的事情會因為沒有意識到這第十點而無法獲得我們真正想要的。)