austerities是什么意思？

austerities

• n. 严厉( austerity的名词复数 )，简朴，苦行，节衣缩食；

例句

• Forgiveness is woodland of peace, where perfect calm prevails and austerities are performed. 宽恕是和平的绿地, 在这里有理想中的平静和善行.
• He took to the religious life and at first set no limit to his austerities. 他投身于宗教生活,一开始就竭力刻苦修行.
• Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel. 战时的艰苦包括食物配给和燃料短缺.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  ...an economic austerity programme. 经济紧缩方案 ...the years of austerity which followed the war. 战后的艰苦岁月
• N-UNCOUNT
  （物品的）简朴，无华
  If you refer to something as showing austerity, you like its plain and simple appearance.
  例句
  ...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