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Ration Fixed N Medicine Pronunciation Rhymes Ræʃən N.定量配给;V.配给

单词 ration
音标 ['ræʃən]
解释 n.定量配给;v.配给
红宝书 【英】 n. 定量配给 (a share of food allowed to one person for a period);v.配给( limit someone to a fixed ration)
【考】 dose : medicine / ration : food(一剂药/一份粮食)
字源 ration (n.)
1550, "reasoning," later, "relation of one number to another" (1660s), then "fixed allowance of food" (1702, often rations, from French ration in this sense), from Latin rationem (nominative ratio) "a reckoning, calculation, proportion" (see ratio). The military pronunciation (rhymes with fashion) took over from the preferred civilian pronunciation (rhymes with nation) during World War I.
ration (v.)
"put (someone) on a fixed allowance," 1859, from ration (n.); sense of "apportion in fixed amounts" is from 1870. Related: Rationed; rationing.
不择手段背单词 n. /v. 定量配给(在物资缺乏时供给军队人员或平民的定量粮食)
【记】源于: ratio(n 比; 比率), 按比例配给粮食.
【类】dose: medicine = ration: food一剂药 = 一份粮食
趣味全助记 【记】ratio 比率,按照比率分配→定量配给

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