privation

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美 [praɪˈveʃən] word us audio image

  • n.
    (生活必需品的)匮乏,贫困

单词词源

privation 剥夺,丧失,贫困,匮乏,艰难

来自拉丁语privationem,剥夺,使失去,来自拉丁语privare,使个人化,使分开,使剥离,词源同private.引申词义贫困,丧失,匮乏,艰难等。

双语例句

1. 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。
2. Extreme privation did not prevent tens of thousands of defiant supporters in gaza this week from celebrating hamas 's founding .
极端的穷困并没有阻止好几万反叛支持者本周在加沙庆祝哈马斯的建立。
3. A book called " dark side of the moon " tried to alert the west to the soviet deportation of hundreds of thousands of polish civilians to privation and death .
有本“月之暗面”的书试图提醒西方注意苏联驱逐成千上万的波兰平民走向贫苦和死亡。
4. The " survivalist " may be the mentality that is the most widespread among russians of nearly all backgrounds and ages , given the shared experiences of war and privation .
考虑到共同经历的战争与贫困,活命主义也许是在几乎所有背景与年龄段的俄罗斯人心中最普遍的思想方法。
5. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the party 's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible . What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria , which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship .
它不仅仅指性本能创造的世界超出党派控制,可能的话必须将性欲摧毁,更重要的是剥夺性行为会导致歇斯底里,而这种歇斯底里会转变为对战争的狂热和对领袖的崇拜。

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