Privation
[praɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [praɪ'veʃən]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Deprivation, loss, BEREAVEMENT.[2]. Poverty, destitution, want, need, penury, necessity, distress.[3]. Absence, negation.
阿伊达整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Deprivation, destitution, absence, negation, loss, bereavement, hardship, want
ANT:Accession, supply, restoration, benefaction, restitution, presence,compensation, recovery, privilege
黛博拉編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
富兰克林校對
例句/造句/用法:
- We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This difficulty became a real privation to such men as delighted in us both together. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 維萊特.
- 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. 雪麗.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I lost power to movebut, losing at the same time wish, it was no privation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 維萊特.
- I observed, upon that closer opportunity of observation, that she was worn and haggard, and that her sunken eyes expressed privation and endurance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Whatever contributes to lessen these privations, if at little cost, should merit special attention. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Guster has some recompenses for her many privations. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 維萊特.
手打:奥斯伯特