Privation
[praɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [praɪ'veʃən]
解释:
(noun.) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; 'nutritional privation'; 'deprivation of civil rights'.
(noun.) a state of extreme poverty.
康妮手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
(n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
(n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
弗洛伊德手打
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Deprivation, loss, BEREAVEMENT.[2]. Poverty, destitution, want, need, penury, necessity, distress.[3]. Absence, negation.
阿伊达整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want
ANT:Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence,compensation, recovery, privilege
黛博拉编辑
解释:
n. state of being deprived of something esp. of what is necessary for comfort: destitution: (logic) absence of any quality: (obs.) degradation or suspension from an office.—adj. Priv′ative causing privation: consisting in the absence of something.—n. that which is privative or depends on the absence of something else: (logic) a term denoting the absence of a quality: (gram.) a prefix denoting absence or negation.—adv. Priv′atively.—n. Priv′ativeness.
富兰克林校对
例句:
- We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They sat without a fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered the less because reminded by it of the East room. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- I see that a great many men, and more women, hold their span of life on conditions of denial and privation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It was a period of his life corresponding to the Wanderjahre of the German artisan, and was an easy way of gratifying a taste for travel without the risk of privation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This difficulty became a real privation to such men as delighted in us both together. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority--no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The old maid was too poor to give much, though she straitened herself to privation that she might contribute her mite when needful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My dearest girl in barracks; the wife of a soldier in a marching regiment; subject to all sorts of annoyance and privation! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I lost power to movebut, losing at the same time wish, it was no privation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Whatever contributes to lessen these privations, if at little cost, should merit special attention. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Guster has some recompenses for her many privations. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Long may it be generally thought that physical privations alone merit compassion, and that the rest is a figment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
手打:奥斯伯特