职场美语：人手不够 be short of hands职场英语流行美语对话：be short of hands 缺乏人手，人手不够 short作表语时指"某物不够，缺乏某物"的意思，常与介词of搭配遥，既短语be short of something.
A: You look worried about something.
What's the matter?
你好像很着急，怎么了?
B: My computer isn't working and I have got an important contract to type.
我的电脑坏了，可我还有一份重要合同要打出来。
A: Why don't you call the computer company?
你为什么不给计算机公司打个电话?
B: I did, but they said the company was short of hands and couldn't send any man today.
我打了，可他们说人手不够，遥不能派人来。
A: What should I do?
我该怎么办呢?
--------------------------------------------------- 知识拓展：和hand有关的俚语俗语 the hidden hand 看不见的势力，幕后操纵者 the last hand 较后几笔，定稿前的润遥 his hand is in.
他在不断地练习 his hand is out.
他不行 my hands are tied.
我的遥遥其有限 write a good hand 写得一笔好字 ask for a girl's hand 向女子求婚 a clean hand wants no washing.
〔谚语〕手上不沾污〔指罪恶、坏事等〕，不必多洗刷 cool hand 冒失鬼 a crack [good, great] hand 行家，熟手 a dead hand 【法律】没有让渡权的所有主 extra hands 临时工 a free hand 放手处理的遥 (allow sb.
a free hand in his work 让某人放手工作) a fresh [green] hand 生手 a good [poor] hand at 巧[拙]于 a hand's turn 小事 (not do a hand's turn 易如反掌的事都不做) a nap hand 一手好牌;有利的地位 a numb hand 笨人 all hands to the pump(s) 大家都来帮忙 an old hand 内行，过来人 at first hand 直接 (knowledge at first hand 遥手知识) bathe [dip] one's hands in blood 双手沾满鲜血，成为遥人犯 bear [lend] a hand (in) 参加 bear [lend] a hand (with) 帮助， 出一把力 be even hands with sb.
〔苏格兰语〕 向某人报复，同某人算账 be out of sb.
's hands 某人不能控制[处理、负责] bite the hand that feeds one 忘恩负义，恩将仇报