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Ration Food Allowed Person Petrol Times Amount Rationed

英语单词 ration
英美音标 英 ['ræʃn] 美 ['ræʃn]
中文释义 n.定额;定量;配给
vt.限量供应;配给
英语例句 (1) Ration is widely used in manufacturing industry.
(2) Have you used your ration of petrol for this week?
(3) The country cut the bread ration last year.
(4) They had to ration petrol during the war.
(5) We were rationed to two eggs a week.
中文例句 (1) 定额是制造业中广泛使用的一个概念。
(2) 你用了这星期给你定量的汽油了吗?
(3) 那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
(4) 战时他们不得不限量供给汽油。
(5) 每周配给我们两个鸡蛋。
vocabulary简明 When you ration your supplies, you dole them out a little at a time. A ration is also a wartime military meal, or the portion of food that someone is allowed in times of scarcity.
vocabulary扩展 A ration is the fixed portion of food or other goods allowed to each person in times of shortages. In the military, a soldier’s meal is called a ration, especially if it’s portable. As a verb, to ration something is to allow each person to have only a specific amount. During times of war many things have been rationed: gas, rubber, luxury items, and food. If you are diabetic you need to strictly ration your sugar intake.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]定量;配给量 When there is not enough of something, your ration of it is the amount that you are allowed to have.
  • The meat ration was down to one pound per person per week...

    肉的配给量降到了每人每周一磅。

  • They have begun to issue ration cards for basic necessities such as rice and flour.

    他们开始发行用来购买大米、面粉等生活基本必需品的定量配给卡。

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[VERB 动词](通常指由于紧缺)配给,定量供应 When something is rationed by a person or government, you are only allowed to have a limited amount of it, usually because there is not enough of it.
  [be V-ed]
  [V n]
  [be V-ed to amount]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V n to amount]
  • Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being rationed...

    面包、大米和茶叶等日常必需品已实行配给。

  • ...the decision to ration food...

    实行食物配给的决定

  • Motorists will be rationed to thirty litres of petrol a month...

    汽车司机每月的油量将限定为30升。

  • There's a black market in rationed goods.

    实行定量配给的商品存在黑市交易。

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[N-PLURAL 复数名词](给灾民或士兵的)给养,口粮 Rations are the food which is given to people who do not have enough food or to soldiers.
  • Aid officials said that the first emergency food rations of wheat and oil were handed out here last month...

    救助官员说第一批紧急援助的小麦和食用油是上月发放到这里的。

  • The Russian soldiers sampled the officers' rations and wolfed the superior food with delight.

    俄军士兵尝了一下长官的配给食物,然后高高兴兴地把那些高级食物一扫而光。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]通常的量;定额 Your ration of something is the amount of it that you normally have.
  [usu N of n]
  • ...after consuming his ration of junk food and two cigarettes.

    他像往常那样吃完垃圾食品、吸了两根烟后

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rationing

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