plug the gap

SOLVE/DEAL WITH A PROBLEMto provide something that is needed, because there is not enough 填补空缺

With so few trained doctors, paramedics were brought in to plug the gap.

训练有素的医生很少，所以引进了医务辅助人员来填补空缺。

Examples from the Corpus

plug the gap• Creches, Back to Nursing courses and Nurse Banks emerged as a means of plugging the gap.• Insurance companies aim to plug the gap.• The remaining people would become overburdened trying to plug the gaps.• He hopes that I may be able, in some way, to plug the gap in his family history.• The mayor wants to raise property taxes to plug the gap in the budget.• They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year.• A lack of adequate reserves means the company will have to plug the gap using other resources.

→ plug the gap at plug2(1)

词汇	plug the gap
释义	plug the gap plug the gap SOLVE/DEAL WITH A PROBLEMto provide something that is needed, because there is not enough 填补空缺 With so few trained doctors, paramedics were brought in to plug the gap. 训练有素的医生很少，所以引进了医务辅助人员来填补空缺。 Examples from the Corpus plug the gap• Creches, Back to Nursing courses and Nurse Banks emerged as a means of plugging the gap.• Insurance companies aim to plug the gap.• The remaining people would become overburdened trying to plug the gaps.• He hopes that I may be able, in some way, to plug the gap in his family history.• The mayor wants to raise property taxes to plug the gap in the budget.• They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year.• A lack of adequate reserves means the company will have to plug the gap using other resources. → plug the gap at plug2(1)
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