privation
privation 英 [praɪˈveɪʃn] 美 [praɪˈveʃən]
n. 贫困；丧失；被剥夺了某物的状态
名词复数:privations
- If you're lacking the basic necessities of life — food, water, political freedom, and so on — you're suffering from privation.
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- n. 贫困；丧失；被剥夺了某物的状态
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1. The older generation still saves, with lingering memories of privation and the country’s flimsy social safety net.
由于对贫困的记忆以及中国社保网络的脆弱，老一辈仍然会存钱。
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2. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the sombre secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels.
在贫困的压力和对努力的需求下，我有时候会忘却那种郁郁的神秘感，它困扰着我，也由此产生诸多臆测。
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3. Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm.
纵览人类的整个历史，人类经常面对的是物质匮乏和长期的不安全感。
- 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.
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