英语词典 · 单词释义
privation
英 [praɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [praɪ'veʃən]
这里集中整理“privation”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 贫困；丧失；被剥夺了某物的状态
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: privations;
中文词源
privation 剥夺，丧失，贫困，匮乏，艰难
来自拉丁语privationem,剥夺，使失去，来自拉丁语privare,使个人化，使分开，使剥离，词源同private.引申词义贫困，丧失，匮乏，艰难等。
英文词源
- privation (n.)
- mid-14c., "action of depriving," from Old French privacion and directly from Latin privationem (nominative privatio) "a taking away," noun of action from past participle stem of privare "deprive" (see private (adj.)). Meaning "want of life's comforts or of some necessity" is attested from 1790.
双语例句
- 1. Cold is the privation of heat.
- 所谓冷就是缺乏热量.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. It will be the greatest imaginable privation for her to have to leave london.
- 对她来说,不得不离开伦敦大概是能想像到的最大的损失.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
- 第二次世界大战期间，他们忍受了5年的贫困生活。
来自辞典例句
- 4. She didn'tfind the lack of a car any great privation.
- 她觉得没有汽车并非重大缺憾.
来自辞典例句
- 5. It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster.
- 那是一个暂时匮乏和灾难迫在眉睫的清凉时代.
来自辞典例句