privations

英 [praɪˈveɪʃənz]

美 [praɪˈveɪʃənz]

n.  贫困; 匮乏; 艰难
privation的复数

双语例句

• And therein lies their biggest problem, Steinfeld writes: their parents and grandparents want to live through them, counting on their only offspring to make up for the privations of decades.
  斯坦菲尔德写道，这就带来了他们最大的问题：父母及祖父母把希望全寄托在他们身上，指望自己唯一的后代弥补数十年的艰辛。
• Three times as many privations would be easily borne if it were not for the moral shock when one is first taken.
  苦难即使再加两倍，也可以忍受，难以忍受的是初次被捕时精神上所受到的打击。
• 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。
• THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.
  这里不打算追述摩门教徒们最后定居以前在移民历程中所遭受的苦难情况。
• 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。
• 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。
• She remembered the privations of her soul.
  她想起她被剥夺的灵魂。
• 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。
• Chinese often talk about their capacity to chi ku, or "eat bitterness", which helps explain their resilience amid the chaos and privations of the past century.
  中国人经常说自己能“吃苦”，这让他们能够适应最近一百年的混乱与贫困。