austerity是什么意思？

austerity

英[ɒˈsterəti] 美[ɔˈstɛrɪti]

• n. 严厉，简朴，朴素，苦行，节衣缩食；

复数：austerities;

例句

• When they tighten their belts, austerity ripples out and chokes growth. 当他们束紧裤腰带, 简朴生活会波及到经济增长.
• Our anxiety about an austerity drive in industrialised countries is clear. 很显然,工业国的紧缩风潮令我们感到不安.
• A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life. 他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻.
• War was followed by many years of austerity. 紧随战争的是多年的经济紧缩。
• It was an era of austerity. 那是个艰苦的年代。
• 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。
• ...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
• ...the years of austerity which followed the war. 战后的艰苦岁月
• ...an economic austerity programme. 经济紧缩方案
• The advent of war led to a greater austerity. 战争的到来使形势更为严峻。

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

英汉词典释义

• n.
  (经济的)紧缩; 严格节制消费
  War was followed by many years of austerity. 紧随战争的是多年的经济紧缩.
  简朴, 朴素
  War was followed by many years of austerity. 战争结束后还要过多年的紧日子。
  节衣缩食, 艰苦朴素
  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。

英英词典释义

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