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deprivation

/dep-ruh-vey-shuhn/US // ˌdɛp rəˈveɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdɛprɪˈveɪʃən) //

匮乏,剥夺,褫夺,贫困

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of depriving.
    • : the fact of being deprived.
    • : dispossession; loss.
    • : removal from ecclesiastical office.
    • : privation.

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Examples

  • That finding offered a window into the effects of long-term parental deprivation on stress responses.

  • To single out the effects of early hardship, Gunnar needed children who had started life in deprivation but then moved into healthy, supportive environments after infancy.

  • To study these effects, Gunnar needed children who had felt deprivation in infancy, then moved into healthy, supportive homes.

  • In fact, control rats managed to sleep about 70% as much as they normally would, suffering only mild sleep deprivation.

  • The first studies to investigate total sleep deprivation had a maniacal quality to them.

  • Zubaydah and two other detainees were subsequently waterboarded, and subjected to other methods including sleep deprivation.

  • Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.

  • He was slapped, grabbed in the face, placed in stress positions, placed in standing sleep deprivation, and doused with water.

  • Neurons begin to die within four to six minutes of oxygen deprivation.

  • But delay hurts, deprivation is unfair, and waiting (and waiting) matters.

  • It is astonishing how deeply I felt this deprivation, and how much more horrible my solitude now appeared.

  • They could, besides, be judged from the standpoint of deprivation, comparing them to each other as if they contained some form.

  • By this one deprivation his contact with man had ruined him for the life of nature.

  • The only punishment suffered in these cases is the deprivation of the power of seeing fairies, or banishment from their society.

  • It would be hard to imagine any deprivation greater than that to which this misfortune condemned the explorers.