privations

英 [praɪˈveɪʃənz]

美 [praɪˈveɪʃənz]

n.  贫困; 匮乏; 艰难
privation的复数

双语例句

• All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself.
  全部享受归于几个人，全部贫乏归于其余的人，就是说，归于人民；特权、例外、垄断、封建制都从劳动中产生。
• The food they use being little susceptible of storing up, they have no accumulation of it, and are often exposed to great privations.
  他们的食物不易储藏，因而没有食物储备，常常极为缺乏生活必需品。
• I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class.
  那时候的种种艰苦和匮乏我记忆犹新，从那时起直到现在，我的心一直始终和工人阶级在一起。
• He says it "beareth all things". It covers its own privations so as not to become burdensome to others.
  他说：“爱是凡事包容”，就是包容他人的缺点，不给别人增加压力。
• Lacking adequate provision of fresh water, electricity, sanitation or health care, they suffer privations that all too often provide the tinder for the fires of social unrest.
  他们无法获得足够的淡水、电力、卫生和保健，他们所受的困苦常常成为社会动乱的火种。
• The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous;
  当时，她为即将到来的冬天描绘出一幅凄凄凉凉的景象，可结果证明她错了。
• The effect of the privations and sufferings which he endured at this time was discernible to the last in his temper and his department.
  他在这时期所受的苦难，其影响所及，在他的性格举止之间暴露无遗。
• Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare copies of every sort.
  虽然穷，他却有能力通过耐心、节约和时间来收藏许多各种类型的善本书。
• I drilled him as representing in turn all sorts of people out of luck and suffering dire privations and misfortune.
  我训练他的方法是叫他轮流看代表各种各类的时运不济，受尽苦难的人。
• Indeed I have suffered from the inconveniences of my fortune as a poor man does from those of his privations.
  实在的说，我拥有的一切给我带来麻烦，我为此遭受的痛苦和一个穷人因其贫困而遭受的痛苦是一样的。