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

• Rethinking of Social Welfare Privation Policy& Based on Elderly Service
  社会福利社会化政策的反思&以养老服务为例
• Then came a long period of bodily privation, of daily hunger after food.
  接着，身体上又受到了长期的煎熬，每天挨着饥饿。
• Michael's work had taught him that the poor would never have consented to part with their children, even though keeping them would always mean privation and suffering.
  迈克尔的工作使他意识到，穷人们是决不肯和子女分离的，即使赡养子女总使他们沦于贫困和痛苦。
• Ignorance is mere privation.
  无知是一种纯粹的贫乏。
• 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。
• "That is the advantage of privation." answered the doctor.
  “这就是没吃没喝的优点。”博士说。
• 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。
• They could have found a certain happiness in helping each other's privation.
  他们在彼此互助，分担患难中，还找得到一种快乐。
• 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；
• He was a mere boy in years twenty-one about but with a body lank and long, because of privation.
  论年龄他还只是个孩子大约21岁但是由于贫困，身材却长得又瘦又长。