央行发布7月金融数据，社融和贷款均大幅低于预期，7月份，人民币贷款增加1.06万亿元，低于分析师预测的1.25万亿元。请看本报昨日的报道：

Banks in China extended 1.06 trillion yuan (US$150.06 billion) in new yuan loans in July, down from June and falling short of analysts’ expectations, central bank data showed Monday.

Analysts polled previously had predicted new yuan loans would fall to 1.25 trillion yuan in July, from 1.66 trillion yuan in the previous month.

Growth of money supply and total social financing also slowed, raising pressure on the central bank to ease policy further to support the slowing economy.

报道中的fall short of就是“达不到”(fail to satisfy)，例如：

Even though I started training again, I continued to fall short of my 5-minute mile goal.

尽管开始恢复训练了，我一直不能达到5分钟跑一英里的目标。