austerity

/ɒ'sterәti/ uk　 词频 #14652

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austerity 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 朴素, 苦行, 严格, 严峻

英文释义

n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

austerity 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 austerity 在自然语境里怎么用：

There has been an element of austerity, even astringency, in one major strain of the novel since the nineteenth century.

—— “People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”

Every element had been carefully considered, Tabitha noted, the suave austerity of the Wassily chairs orbited by antique rugs and estate-sale paintings.

—— “Stick Season”

The authors emphasize that these goals are not about austerity or deprivation, they are about delivering better energy services with less waste, lower risk, and greater fairness.

—— Scientists call for integrating three energy demand goals into climate policy by 2035

As the Spanish government’s austerity measures spill out of the narrator like a litany of distressing symptoms, her supposed health anxiety becomes fully legible as concerns about vulnerability in the absence of care.

—— Due to changes in the DSM, it’s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type

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