privation

noun

1. 贫困；匮乏；艰难
   a lack of the basic things that people need for living
   1. the privations of poverty
      艰难困苦
   2. They endured years of suffering and privation.
      他们饱受多年的煎熬与贫困。

1. N-UNCOUNT 贫困；贫乏；困苦
   If you suffer privation or privations, you have to live without many of the things that are thought to be necessary in life, such as food, clothing, or comfort.
   1. 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。
   2. The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.
      从他的外表来看可以明显看出修道院生活的清贫。

1. The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.
   从他的外表来看可以明显看出修道院生活的清贫。
2. His father returned a negative, and then for the first time it occurred to Angel that her pride had stood in her way, and that she had suffered privation.
   他的父亲回答说没有，这时候安琪尔才第一次想到这是她的自尊妨碍了她来要钱，才想到她因为没有钱用而受了苦了。
3. We can live rough a bit. but with the coming of winter and too lavish contributions to her family's support, privation stares her in the face.
   我们可以凑合着过几天艰苦生活。可是冬天一来，加上她给家里过多的生活费，她面临贫困艰难的处境。
4. The conversion of state-owned property to privately owned property is called privation.
   国家所有的财务转变为私人所有称作私有化。
5. Then came a long period of bodily privation, of daily hunger after food.
   接着，身体上又受到了长期的煎熬，每天挨着饥饿。
6. Poor people living in conditions of squalor and privation.
   生活在肮脏而又贫困环境中的穷人。
7. I knew that you went out from home in America because of a privation of high conduct.
   我知道你离开在美国的家乡正是有感于你缺乏高尚的品质。
8. Despite the privation, and the mounting toll of dead and wounded, however, morale remained intact, and people still smile in the street.
   尽管供应不足，伤亡增加，然而士气并未受到影响。街上，人们照常脸有笑容。
9. Rethinking of Social Welfare Privation Policy& Based on Elderly Service
   社会福利社会化政策的反思&以养老服务为例
10. Undergo great hardship, suffering, privation, etc.
    遭受极度的艰难、困苦、贫困等。
11. Meanwhile, the bulk of his people suffer privation and myriad hardships.
    而与此同时，朝鲜大部分人民则生活在水深火热之中。
12. All are careful to sound as if they believe that fiscal privation is the road to salvation.
    他们都表现得相当谨慎，就好像他们相信：财政上捉襟见肘是救赎之路。
13. Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness;
    让你自己习惯于相信，死亡对我们一无所是，因为善恶隐含对意识的要求，而死亡是对所有意识的剥夺；
14. Ignorance is mere privation.
    无知是一种纯粹的贫乏。
15. She didn'tfind the lack of a car any great privation.
    她觉得没有汽车并非重大缺憾。
16. A mother's love is so strong and unyielding that it endures all circumstances; good fortune and misfortune, prosperity and privation, honor and disgrace.
    母亲的爱坚强不屈，它可以忍受任何环境；幸运与不幸，富足与贫困，荣耀与屈辱。
17. He looked upon privation as no hardship.
    他不把忍饥受冻当作什么苦难。
18. They could have found a certain happiness in helping each other's privation.
    他们在彼此互助，分担患难中，还找得到一种快乐。
19. His death was a great privation to his colleagues.
    他的死对他的同事们来说是一个巨大的损失。
20. He was a mere boy in years twenty-one about but with a body lank and long, because of privation.
    论年龄他还只是个孩子大约21岁但是由于贫困，身材却长得又瘦又长。
21. It would is 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。
22. Michael's work had taught him that the poor would never have consented to part with their children, even though keeping them would always mean privation and suffering.
    迈克尔的工作使他意识到，穷人们是决不肯和子女分离的，即使赡养子女总使他们沦于贫困和痛苦。
23. "That is the advantage of privation." answered the doctor.
    “这就是没吃没喝的优点。”博士说。
24. The plea was that of a gaunt-faced man of about thirty, who looked the picture of privation and wretchedness.
    求乞的是一个30左右的男人，脸色消瘦憔悴，一副穷困凄惨的模样。
25. He could not find an adequate motive in Mr. Butler's life of pinching and privation.
    他认为巴特勒先生那种积攒困苦的生活动机未必恰当。
26. To discipline ( one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
    抑制通过克己或自我苦行的方式抑制（一个人的身体或物质欲望）
27. Whilst prone to make a great ado about little hurts, these men bear intense suffering and privation with magnificent stoicism.
    由于小伤小痛容易带来不必要的麻烦，这些工人强忍辛劳与疼痛，令人惊叹。
28. During peace time, some extremist and totalitarianism elements in the positive liberty should be abandoned, but the responsibility and participation elements in the negative liberty should be affirmed in the political privation.
    在和平时期，积极自由中的某些过激和集权的因素应被人们抛弃，但其中的负责和参与因素在政治私人化中需要肯定。

noun

1. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
   1. nutritional privation
   2. deprivation of civil rights

   Synonym:    deprivation

2. a state of extreme poverty

   Synonym:    wantdeprivationneediness