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rationing n.定量供应动词ration的现在分词形式. (1) 战时的艰苦包括食物配给和燃料短缺。(2) 政府可能不得不实行汽油限量供应。 When something is in short supply, like rubber and metal during the Second World War, a government will often institute rationing to save that material, making sure there's enough of it for emergencies. Rationing during the war meant that people had a specific amount of food they could buy each week, and once an item was used up, they had to wait until they got a new ration book to buy more. Ration means "hand out in fixed amounts."

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英 ['ræʃənɪŋ] 美 ['ræʃənɪŋ] (1) Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel.(2) The Government may have to introduce petrol rationing. Rationing is carefully controlling the amount of something that people use. During World War Two, Americans participated in the rationing of food, gasoline, and other materials. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（食物等的）配给机制 Rationing is the system of limiting the amount of food, water, petrol, or other necessary substances that each person is allowed to have or buy when there is not enough of them.   [usu with supp]The municipal authorities here are preparing for food rationing.这里的市政当局正准备实施食物配给制度。

英语单词	rationing
英美音标	英 ['ræʃənɪŋ] 美 ['ræʃənɪŋ]
中文释义	n.定量供应动词ration的现在分词形式.
英语例句	(1) Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel. (2) The Government may have to introduce petrol rationing.
中文例句	(1) 战时的艰苦包括食物配给和燃料短缺。 (2) 政府可能不得不实行汽油限量供应。
vocabulary简明	Rationing is carefully controlling the amount of something that people use. During World War Two, Americans participated in the rationing of food, gasoline, and other materials.
vocabulary扩展	When something is in short supply, like rubber and metal during the Second World War, a government will often institute rationing to save that material, making sure there's enough of it for emergencies. Rationing during the war meant that people had a specific amount of food they could buy each week, and once an item was used up, they had to wait until they got a new ration book to buy more. Ration means "hand out in fixed amounts."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]（食物等的）配给机制 Rationing is the system of limiting the amount of food, water, petrol, or other necessary substances that each person is allowed to have or buy when there is not enough of them. [usu with supp] The municipal authorities here are preparing for food rationing. 这里的市政当局正准备实施食物配给制度。

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