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deficiency / lack / scarce / vacant post / to run short of
HSK 3
shortage
HSK 7-9
in short supply / scarce
HSK 7-9
in perfect condition / without any defect
perfect and without blemish / flawless / to leave nothing to be desired
necessary / must have
waxing and waning (of the moon)
to fill a vacancy / to make up for a shortage / to supply a deficiency
vacancy
to fall vacant / a job opening at a high level
whole
to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative / stickler for tradition
lightning (archaic word)
lucrative post
new moon
scarce / scarcity
to lack / to do without
surplus and shortfall
very short of (food, clean water etc) / extreme shortage / deficit
to be lacking / to fall short of / to wane / deficit / deficient
waiting for a vacancy
symmetry breaking (physics)
(job) opening
to be deficient in / lapse / deficiency
HSK 7-9
spontaneous symmetry breaking (physics)
conservative / to preserve the outmoded
breaking
badly damaged / shattered
HSK 7-9
to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom)
vacancy
to be deficient in sth / to be short of sth (supplies, money etc)
currently in short supply / in deficit (of commodity) / currently vacant (position)


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