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privation

英 [praɪˈveɪʃn]

美 [praɪˈveɪʃn]

n.  贫困; 匮乏; 艰难

复数:privations 

GRE

BNC.20449 / COCA.24072

牛津词典

    noun

    • 贫困;匮乏;艰难
      a lack of the basic things that people need for living
      1. the privations of poverty
        艰难困苦
      2. They endured years of suffering and privation.
        他们饱受多年的煎熬与贫困。

    柯林斯词典

    • N-UNCOUNT 贫困;贫乏;困苦
      If you sufferprivationorprivations, you have to live without many of the things that are thought to be necessary in life, such as food, clothing, or comfort.
      1. They endured five years of privation during the second world war...
        第二次世界大战期间,他们忍受了5年的贫困生活。
      2. The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.
        从他的外表来看可以明显看出修道院生活的清贫。

    英英释义

    noun

    • act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
      1. nutritional privation
      2. deprivation of civil rights
      Synonym:deprivation
    • a state of extreme poverty
        Synonym:wantdeprivationneediness

      双语例句

      • Undergo great hardship, suffering, privation, etc.
        遭受极度的艰难、困苦、贫困等。
      • Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness;
        让你自己习惯于相信,死亡对我们一无所是,因为善恶隐含对意识的要求,而死亡是对所有意识的剥夺;
      • All are careful to sound as if they believe that fiscal privation is the road to salvation.
        他们都表现得相当谨慎,就好像他们相信:财政上捉襟见肘是救赎之路。
      • His father returned a negative, and then for the first time it occurred to Angel that her pride had stood in her way, and that she had suffered privation.
        他的父亲回答说没有,这时候安琪尔才第一次想到这是她的自尊妨碍了她来要钱,才想到她因为没有钱用而受了苦了。
      • Ignorance is mere privation.
        无知是一种纯粹的贫乏。
      • It would is the greatest imaginable privation for her to have to leave London.
        对她来说,不得不离开伦敦大概是能想像到的最大的损失。
      • To discipline ( one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
        抑制通过克己或自我苦行的方式抑制(一个人的身体或物质欲望)
      • A mother's love is so strong and unyielding that it endures all circumstances; good fortune and misfortune, prosperity and privation, honor and disgrace.
        母亲的爱坚强不屈,它可以忍受任何环境;幸运与不幸,富足与贫困,荣耀与屈辱。
      • During peace time, some extremist and totalitarianism elements in the positive liberty should be abandoned, but the responsibility and participation elements in the negative liberty should be affirmed in the political privation.
        在和平时期,积极自由中的某些过激和集权的因素应被人们抛弃,但其中的负责和参与因素在政治私人化中需要肯定。
      • He looked upon privation as no hardship.
        他不把忍饥受冻当作什么苦难。