privation

英 [praɪ'veɪʃn] 美 [praɪ'veɪʃn]

• n. 贫困；匮乏；丧失

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 缺乏
2. 匮乏
3. 贫困
4. 丧失
5. 剥夺
6. 穷困
7. 艰难
8. 困难
9. 困苦
10. 褫夺
11. 没收
12. 【逻】缺性
13. 贫乏
14. 患难
15. 煎熬
16. 苦头
17. 忍饥受冻
18. 没吃没喝

英英释义

Noun:

1. a state of extreme poverty

2. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights;

   "nutritional privation"
   "deprivation of civil rights"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. They endured years of suffering and privation.
   他们饱受多年的煎熬与贫困。
2. Cold is the privation of heat.
   所谓冷就是缺乏热量。
3. His death was a great privation to his colleagues.
   他的死对他的同事们来说是一个巨大的损失。

经典引文

• Prepared by penury..for the privations of a military life.

  出自： J. H. Newman

• We foresaw distress..and privation..no holidays, no new clothes, no concerts.

  出自： R. West

• Besides the physical privations, there was the mental anguish.

  出自： M. Scammell

近反义词

【近义词】

• deprivation 剥夺
• poverty 贫困
• hardship 艰难
• adversity 不幸
• need 需要
• misery 痛苦
• dearth 缺乏
• loss 遗失
• absence 缺席
• necessity 需要
• want 要
• neediness 穷困