Ration
['ræʃ(ə)n] or ['ræʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); 'the rations should be nutritionally balanced'.
(noun.) a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity).
(verb.) distribute in rations, as in the army; 'Cigarettes are rationed'.
(verb.) restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; 'Bread was rationed during the siege of the city'.
校對:谢尔比--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
(n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
(v. t.) To supply with rations, as a regiment.
整理:塞尔瓦托
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Portion (of food or drink), allowance.
埃文編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the quantity of provisions distributed to a soldier or sailor daily: an allowance.—n. Rā′tion-mon′ey money paid as commutation for rations.
整理:玛米
例句/造句/用法:
- Hi story of Birds, and the Parts and Gene ration of them. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The body demands a daily ration of the three classes of food stuffs, but it is for us to determine from what meats, vegetables, fruits, cereals, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Another department manufactures what is called a balanced ration, consisting of a certain amount of grain and a certain amount of this stock food, or digester tankage, as it is called. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We did not know what to do, and so we ordered a new ration of sausage. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- La cause de tous les rel?chemens vient de l'impunité des crimes, et non de la modération des peines. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But if we take this route, all we do must be done whilst the rations we start with hold out. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They had been so long on short rations that my first thought was the establishment of a line over which food might reach them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They took twelve barges in tow, loaded also with rations. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It was this statement that induced me to insert in the terms that he was to draw rations for his men from his own supplies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To prepare for this, the 9th corps will have rations issued to them, same as the balance of the army. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In our interview he told me he had rations enough to hold out for some time--my recollection is two weeks. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The commissary general of prisoners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They were rationed about as our own men, and from our supplies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:弗恩