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.
雙語例句
1. Cold is the privation of heat.
所謂冷就是缺乏熱量.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. It will be the greatest imaginable privation for her to have to leave london.
對她來說,不得不離開倫敦大概是能想像到的最大的損失.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. They endured five years of privation during the second world war.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間，他們?nèi)淌芰?年的貧困生活。
來自辭典例句
4. She didn'tfind the lack of a car any great privation.
她覺得沒有汽車并非重大缺憾.
來自辭典例句
5. It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster.