deprivation

英 [ˌdeprɪˈveɪʃn]

美 [ˌdeprɪˈveɪʃn]

n.  缺乏; 贫困; 丧失; 剥夺

复数：deprivations　

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BNC.6057 / COCA.9193

牛津词典

noun

• 缺乏；贫困；丧失；剥夺
  the fact of not having sth that you need, like enough food, money or a home; the process that causes this
  1. neglected children suffering from social deprivation
     遭社会遗弃无人照管的孩子
  2. sleep deprivation
     睡眠缺乏
  3. the deprivation of war (= the suffering caused by not having enough of some things)
     战时的物品匮乏

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 剥夺;丧失;贫困;匮乏
  If you sufferdeprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
  1. ...long-term patients who face a life of deprivation...
     面临终生贫困的长期病患
  2. Millions more suffer from serious sleep deprivation caused by long work hours.
     另外还有数百万人因工作时间过长而睡眠严重不足。
  3. ...the effects of social deprivations on families.
     社会权利丧失对家庭的影响

英英释义

noun

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
  1. nutritional privation
  2. deprivation of civil rights
  Synonym:privation
• the disadvantage that results from losing something
  1. his loss of credibility led to his resignation
  2. losing him is no great deprivation
  Synonym:loss
• a state of extreme poverty
  Synonym:privationwantneediness

双语例句

• More recent studies have tied chronic partial sleep deprivation to medical problems, including obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
  更多的近来的研究把慢性部分睡眠剥夺和医学疾病联系到了一起，包括肥胖，糖尿病和高血压。
• These results could be explained by the dual mechanisms of self-evaluation and affection in relative deprivation theory.
  研究采用相对剥夺理论的自我评价-情感双通路机制来解释这些结果。
• The inner-city has guns and crime and drugs and deprivation.
  市中心的贫民区充斥着滥用枪支、犯罪、吸毒和贫困问题。
• The report, called 'Child Poverty and Deprivation in the UK', makes for depressing reading.
  题为“英国儿童的贫困状况”的报告让人读起来心情沉重。
• Today, on a Moment of Science, we're conducting an experiment on sleep deprivation.
  在今天的“科学一刻”中，我们来对睡眠剥夺作一个实验。
• Form deprivation can induce high myopia.
  结论：形觉剥夺可导致高度近视眼；
• AbstractObjectiveTo explore the effect of shortterm total sleep deprivation on the temperature regulation and growth of young rats.
  目的通过建立完全性睡眠剥夺的幼鼠模型，探讨短期完全性睡眠剥夺对幼鼠体温调节及生长的影响。
• They suffer from deprivation of political and civil rights.
  他们被剥夺了政治权利和公民权利。
• Sleep allows our brain to rest* Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.
  睡眠可以让我们的大脑休息，长期的睡眠不足，会加速脑细胞的死亡。
• Psychoanalysts tend to regard both sadism and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.
  精神分析学家往往认为施虐狂和受虐狂都是由于儿时缺乏关爱造成的。