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austerity
释义
- n.
- 苦行；朴素；（经济的）紧缩；严格节制消费
- 网络
- 节俭；严峻；简朴
展开详细释义
n.
1.紧缩,紧缩开支,厉行节约
2.(经济的)紧缩
3.严格;严肃
4.简朴,朴素
5.苦行
6.严肃;严峻
7.苦涩味
8.质朴;朴素化;朴素生活;
9.刻板
10.刻苦修行
词形变化
复数：austerities
在例句中理解 34 句
It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners.
这可能部分由于她着装上故作严肃简朴，部分因为她举止上有意不动声色。
Since reform tends to require lubrication, opening up the public services at a time of austerity was always likely to be tough.
既然改革需要更多润滑，在经济紧缩时期开放公共服务可能会很艰难。
Voters in countries currently implementing very tough austerity programmes have to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
我们还必须让目前正施行严厉紧缩计划国家的选民看到隧道尽头已露出几丝亮光。
Mr Abdullah said the measures would be financed by a government austerity campaign and by delaying plans for some infrastructure projects.
阿卜杜拉表示，将通过政府节俭运动以及推迟部分基础设施项目计划为上述措施筹措资金。
Spending cuts and other austerity measures "might be an effective tool to contain the crisis, " he said.
减少支出或其他经济紧缩政策可能是遏制危机的好方法。
Reneging on our commitments to the world's poor cannot be an austerity measure, " she said. "
放弃我们给世界上的穷国的承诺不能成为一种紧缩措施。
Her suggestions that Britain's austerity may be have gone too far was met with a cold shoulder in London.
另外，她还曾暗示英国实行的紧缩政策可能做得太过，而伦敦方面则对此不予理睬。
After several years of austerity, people are realizing that a cruise vacation is now one of the great values in travel.
过了几年紧巴巴的日子之后，人们开始意识到一次邮轮旅行已经成为了旅游计划中很有价值的一部分。
And after all that effort, the austerity plan failed to do the trick; Britain left the gold standard within months.
在付出一切努力之后，节俭计划终告失败；没用几个月的时间，英国就退出了金本位。
Given taxes cannot be raised enough, America has no choice but to enter our own age of austerity, via long-term spending reductions.
既然没法实现幅度充分的增税，美国除了步入紧缩时代以外，别无办法，也就是说只能通过长期削减开支。
But the price of any EU bail-out of Greece is likely to be savage austerity measures, overseen by officials sent in from Brussels.
但无论欧盟为希腊提供何种纾困，代价都可能是严酷的财政紧缩措施，在欧盟派来的官员监督下施行。
And I see no sign at all that European policy elites are ready to rethink their hard-money-and-austerity dogma.
而且，我根本看不到欧洲政策精英们愿意重新考虑他们的硬货币及紧缩教条的任何迹象。
As Chicago attempts to provide services in an era of greater austerity, doing things as they have always been done is no longer an option.
芝加哥要在这个财政缩紧的年代试图提供服务，它们就不能用以往一直的方式办事。
His resignation came with a caveat in which he stated he would move aside once austerity measures were installed.
他的辞职是一个警告，他说他会动议搁置紧缩措施一旦被安装。
Europe is likely to go through a weak period as governments implement more austerity measures in the face of a weak economy.
欧洲可能会经历一段疲弱期，而欧洲政府面对衰弱的经济，将实施更多节约措施。
But Portugal, facing years of austerity and low growth, may not be inclined to join in the general rejoicing.
但是，葡萄牙在经历了好几年的经济紧缩和低增长，可能不会倾向于加入一般的欢庆。
Mixing the austerity needed to fix Britain's finances with the sort of good cheer that helps to win elections is not easy.
要想解决英国的财政问题需要实行财政紧缩政策，要想赢得选举则需要讨好选民，把二者结合起来是不容易的。
Antonis Samaras, leader of the opposition New Democracy party, said he would vote against the austerity programme in parliament.
反对党新民主党（NewDemocracy）领袖安东尼斯•萨马拉斯（AntonisSmaras）表示，他会在议会投票反对紧缩方案。
Judged by the claims of those who welcome the new fiscal austerity, as well as those who fear it, a gigantic fiscal blow is about to land.
无论是欢迎也好，恐惧也罢，普遍言论认为新财政紧缩带来的巨量财政打击即将着陆。
But Samaras said the new Democratic Party will not accept any form of fiscal austerity.
但萨马拉斯表示，新民主党不会接受任何形式的财政紧缩。
Or a government trying to impose austerity might be replaced by one that rejects it.
或是一个试图实施紧缩的政府可能会被一个拒绝紧缩的政府所取代。
Discipline, as we said, is learning, and learning about austerity does not bring about violence to oneself or to another.
纪律，正如我们所说，是学习，对苦行的了解，并不会带来对自己或者对别人的暴力。
Public transport strikes in London and France this week told everyone what they already knew but many had yet to feel: austerity will hurt.
本周，伦敦和法国公交运输业举行罢工，这传递了人们已经知道的、但很多人尚未切身感受到的一个信息，那就是：勒紧裤腰带的滋味不好受。
For the moment, President Nicolas Sarkozy has no such broader austerity plan. But he will need one soon.
目前法国总统尼古拉斯.萨科奇（NicolasSarkozy）尚未提出更全面的紧缩举措，但他不久之后就非得这么做了。
Most leaders therefore find currency devaluation so unthinkable that, at first glance, austerity seems to be the only choice.
因此，在许多领导人看来，货币贬值简直不可想象，乍看上去，财政紧缩似乎成了唯一的选择。
For most people, dispensing with a personal dresser and an official companion for a foreign trip does not count as the height of austerity.
对大部分人来说，在一次出国的行程中减少个私人服装师或者官方陪同难以提升到简朴的高度。
There is no sign yet that investors are panicking over the size of the fiscal deficit or the lack of any medium-term austerity plan.
仍无迹象表明投资者已对财政赤字的规模或中期节俭计划的缺位而感到惶恐不安。
After the second austerity vote was passed in Greece, market fears about a possible default have been put to bed for now.
希腊通过第二轮财政紧缩计划之后，有关其违约的忧虑已暂时平息下来。
'In many corners' of the world austerity was instituted 'in too harsh a way' without letting growth take hold, she said last week.
拉嘉德上周说，在全球很多地区，人们过于严苛地执行紧缩措施，却没有让经济稳步增长。
A speech he gave in August on the danger to the economic recovery from the government's austerity plan was the most acclaimed of the race.
今年八月，爱德华做了篇关于威胁经济复苏于政府紧缩计划的演讲，这次演讲是竞选中最为称赞的部分。
IMF-backed austerity measures
国际货币基金组织支持的经济紧缩措施
a life of austerity
苦行的一生
a time of great austerity after the war
战后极其艰苦的岁月
the austerities of present Eastern Europe
现时东欧的艰难困苦