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 austerity [ɒ'sterәti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 朴素, 苦行, 严格, 严峻

  1. Wartime austerities included food rationing and shortage of fuel.
    战时的艰苦包括食物配给和燃料短缺.
  2. The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.
    苦行生活苦行者的原则和实践；极端的自制与简朴
  3. It can take stringent austerity measures.
    它可以制定严格的紧缩措施。


austerity
[ noun ]
the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
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Austerity \Aus*ter"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Austerities}. [F.
aust['e]rit['e], L. austerias, fr. austerus. See {Austere}.]
1. Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] --Horsley.

2. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness;
harsh discipline.

The austerity of John the Baptist. --Milton.

3. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.

Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress,
and partly to the lack of demonstration in her
manners. --Hawthorne.

  1. Factories, until now spared the worst of the austerity measures, would face the same power cuts as households, it said.
  2. Overhead charges, also known as indirect costs, have been the subject of much debate in academic circles, amid federal budget austerity and declining support for university research in general.
  3. Riots left at least 270 people dead in Venezuela in February after the government announced a new austerity program to please that country's creditors.
  4. They say that will depend on how many countries ask for it, and how many promise to meet the conditions. The bank and fund require some austerity policies from the borrowing countries in return for help.
  5. However, the government was forced again to bail out large state-owned factories hard hit by the austerity program that has reduced inflation.
  6. Barros said the only sign in Ms. Cardoso de Mello's favor was that her dismissal would be seen as a confession the president's economic austerity policies had failed.
  7. Under the austerity measures, the Central Bank _ Argentina's equivalent to the Federal Reserve _ ordered a 53.7 percent devaluation of the austral currency, setting its value at 655 per dollar, compared with 303 per dollar on Friday.
  8. However, it appeared possible that Mr. Buchi might not wish to continue, or that General Pinochet might seek a minister less committed to fiscal austerity.
  9. Menem's government has been following the kind of austerity program the fund usually requires as a condition for aid.
  10. He also, however, advocates stringent austerity measures to counter the $17 billion foreign debt.
  11. The government announced new austerity measures Saturday that party leaders acknowledged would be unpopular and cause more hardship.
  12. "Frankly, it pains me to see journal subscriptions cut and other austerity measures taken in the library while money is spent on carpets, drapes, brass lighting fixtures and similar non-essentials," he said.
  13. If carried out, the Politburo order would affect officials at the uppermost levels of the party and government, who have been exempt from anti-corruption and austerity drives.
  14. JARUZELSKI SAID he hopes to call a referendum on a Polish austerity plan.
  15. Romania's government endorsed a 1994 draft austerity budget based on recommendations made by the International Monetary Fund.
  16. Mr Mitterrand may never have thanked Mr Delors for being so obviously and publicly right as finance minister in moving France towards economic austerity in 1983.
  17. Due to reduced supplies of cut-rate oil from the Soviet Union, Cuba has implemented a 10 percent energy-savings plan to prevent blackouts, but new austerity measures might be needed to avoid electricity failures, Castro said.
  18. Financial markets stabilized Monday in response to new austerity measures imposed by President Carlos Menem to reduce 1 million percent annual inflation and a massive budget deficit.
  19. This support followed Argentina's announcement of an austerity program to control its budget deficit and soaring inflation.
  20. The price increases were part of a government austerity program intended to halt the downward economic spiral Venezuela has been in since the collapse of oil prices a few years ago.
  21. "In this period of increased warning time and fiscal austerity, I think we have to conduct a fundamental re-examination of the use of the reserves in all of the military services," said Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the panel.
  22. The austerity plan is aimed at resolving an economic crisis made worse by the fall in the price of oil, the nation's main source of revenue.
  23. There have been persistent rumours about his health, although in this week's interview he appeared relaxed and fit. The austerity programme is extracting a heavy social cost of which symptoms are not hard to find.
  24. The Wards could get lots of company in austerity.
  25. Borja's austerity package, which included a 36 percent devaluation of the currency, exchange controls and gasoline price increases, has drawn its heaviest criticism from the left, however.
  26. Thousands of bank workers struck Wednesday to demand pay raises, another sign of continuing unrest over government austerity policies.
  27. The first thing to note about the current austerity is that bankers, regulators and borrowers are, in many ways, behaving rationally, given their recent experience.
  28. Mr. Glenn, Mr. Hollings and Mr. Babbitt stressed economic austerity.
  29. Perez said whether Venezuela can continue to make principal and interest payments on its $33 billion foreign debt depends on the success of his austerity program.
  30. Brazil's economy has been brought to a "temporary standstill" by recently introduced austerity measures there, Whirlpool said, adding that there are modest signs of gradual improvement.
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