austerity

noun

1. （经济的）紧缩；严格节制消费
   a situation when people do not have much money to spend because there are bad economic conditions
   1. War was followed by many years of austerity.
      紧随战争的是多年的经济紧缩。
2. 苦行；禁欲
   the quality of being austere
   1. the austerity of the monks' life
      僧侣的禁欲生活
3. 艰苦；朴素
   something that is part of an austere way of life
   1. the austerities of wartime Europe
      战时欧洲的艰苦生活

1. N-UNCOUNT 节衣缩食；艰苦朴素
   Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
   1. ...an economic austerity programme.
      经济紧缩方案
   2. ...the years of austerity which followed the war.
      战后的艰苦岁月
2. N-UNCOUNT （物品的）简朴，无华
   If you refer to something as showing austerity, you like its plain and simple appearance.
   1. ...many abandoned buildings, some of which have a compact classical austerity and dignity.
      许多废弃建筑，其中一些布局紧凑、古朴典雅

1. The advent of war led to a greater austerity.
   战争的到来使形势更为严峻。
2. The austerity measures will have little immediate adverse effect on the average Moroccan
   财政紧缩政策不会对普通的摩洛哥人产生直接的负面影响。
3. It was an era of austerity.
   那是个艰苦的年代。
4. The strike is the latest in a series by public employees in protest at worsening economic conditions and government austerity measures.
   这是公务员发起的一系列罢工中的最新一次，以抗议日趋恶化的经济状况和政府的紧缩措施。
5. It can take stringent austerity measures.
   它可以制定严格的紧缩措施。
6. No wonder voters have tired of austerity.
   难怪选民们已经对紧缩政策丧失了兴趣。
7. If we stick only to such austerity measures, the country will plunge deeper and deeper into recession.
   他说，如果我们坚持这样的紧缩措施，希腊只会跌得更深并陷入更深的衰退。
8. At the same time, companies are also loosening travel budgets after the relative austerity that accompanied the recession.
   与此同时，在经济衰退时期的相对紧缩之后，公司也放松了对旅行成本的控制。
9. Maximum austerity and minimum reform have been the outcome of the Greek crisis so far.
   迄今为止，希腊危机只带来了最大程度的紧缩和最小程度的改革。
10. The striking feature in the current debate about austerity and stimulus has been the lack of attention to investment.
    当前这场关于紧缩和刺激的辩论，其显著特点是缺乏对投资的关注。
11. In response, the eurozone has developed a strategy based on fiscal austerity and structural reform.
    针对当前危机，欧元区制定了一套基于财政紧缩和结构改革的战略。
12. So it will fall to Hungary's mainstream politicians to handle the shrinking economy and manage the austerity programme.
    因此，解决经济萎缩和实施节俭计划的重任将落在匈牙利主流政治家肩上。
13. Here at home, investors worry about rising inflation and the economic effect of the new austerity programme.
    在英国国内，投资者对日益攀升的通胀和新财政紧缩计划的经济影响忧心忡忡。
14. And it must reconcile austerity with the need for reviving the eurozone.
    它还必须把紧缩与欧元区复苏的需求加以调和。
15. It is not a matter of one country dictating austerity to another.
    这不是一个国家命令另一个国家实施紧缩的问题。
16. Flush from their mid-term victory, they have flung themselves headlong into the guillotine of fiscal austerity.
    他们对自己的中期胜利兴奋不已，轻率地就把自己送上了财政紧缩政策的断头台。
17. Both the IMF and European Union are also insisting Greece pass new austerity measures.
    imf和欧盟两方面还一致坚持希腊必须通过新的紧缩措施。
18. Last week, the opposition rejected the government's austerity plans for tackling Portugal's debt crisis.
    上周，反对派否决了政府应对葡萄牙债务危机的紧缩计划。
19. Within hours, Spain and Portugal had announced significant further fiscal austerity measures.
    数小时内，西班牙和葡萄牙相继宣布了新的重大财政紧缩措施。
20. Mr Monti's challenge will be to enact a stringent austerity plan aimed at tackling Italy's massive debt.
    蒙蒂先生的挑战将是制定严格的紧缩计划，旨在解决意大利的巨额债务。
21. The elections in France and Greece tell us that austerity fatigue has set in.
    法国和希腊的选举告诉我们，“紧缩计划疲劳症”已开始显现。
22. The IMF, a bastion of tough love austerity, has come to this important realisation.
    如今，一向以严厉的爱充当紧缩政策堡垒的IMF也已经有了这一重要认识。
23. He rejected the austerity program advocated by the International Monetary Fund.
    他拒绝了国际货币基金组织提出的紧缩开支方案。
24. They will also look at the latest austerity measures announced by Spain and Portugal.
    此外，他们还将研究西班牙和葡萄牙宣布的最新紧缩措施。
25. Austerity is recessionary, as even the IMF now acknowledges.
    如今，连IMF都已承认，紧缩政策造成了经济衰退。
26. The Greeks have met the terms of their fiscal austerity program.
    希腊人已经达成了财政紧缩项目的条件。
27. Once again, a European government has misjudged the predictable impact of austerity.
    又一个欧洲国家的政府误判了紧缩的可预见影响。
28. Greece avoided an imminent default by taking a brave vote for more fiscal austerity on Wednesday.
    希腊上周三勇敢地投票通过了更多财政紧缩措施，从而避免了迫在眉睫的违约。
29. But other Greeks, including this man, see the need for austerity.
    但其他希腊人，包括这名男子在内，则看到了紧缩措施的必要性。
30. And both state and local governments have taken draconian austerity measures in an attempt to make ends meet.
    州政府和地方政府都采取严厉的紧缩措施以求收支平衡。

noun

1. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

   Synonym:    asceticismnonindulgence