"restriction to limited allotments," 1865, verbal noun from ration (v.). Specifically of restrictions during wartime from 1917, from conditions in England during World War I.
雙語例句
1. Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.
定量供應很久以前就結束了餅干過剩的狀況。
來自柯林斯例句
2. As a hangover from rationing, they mixed butter and margarine.
作為食品配給制的一種遺留影響，他們總把黃油和人造黃油混在一起吃。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They righteously maintain that they do not practise rationing.
他們一本正經地堅稱不實行定量配給制度。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.