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rationed

/rash-uhn, rey-shuhn/US // ˈræʃ ən, ˈreɪ ʃən //UK // (ˈræʃən) //

配给的,配给制,配给,配给式

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
    • : an allotted amount: They finally saved up enough gas rations for the trip.
    • : rations, provisions: Enough rations were brought along to feed all the marchers.Chiefly South Atlantic States.food or meals: The old hotel still has the best rations in town.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to supply, apportion, or distribute as rations: to ration out food to an army.
    • : to supply or provide with rations: to ration an army with food.
    • : to restrict the consumption of: to ration meat during war.
    • : to restrict the consumption of: The civilian population was rationed while the war lasted.

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Examples

  • States have made attempts to replace those meals by sending rations or cash to families, albeit with varying degrees of success.

  • So there’s the history of these really tightly controlled agricultural policies, as well as rations on food purchases, that continues into the early 1980s.

  • The World Food Program, for all its plaudits, needs to be part of that kind of answer—not just an org chart plugging hungry mouths with emergency rations, but a force that helps rebalance this off-kilter system.

  • You don’t have to rely on weird survival rations to make it through tough times.

  • At one point, she wrote, she lived on tiny squares of chocolate and self-rationed corn flakes.

  • If rationed carefully and traveling at maximum speed, I might even cover a good amount of nearby land.

  • Food was strictly rationed and curfews deadened the late nights.

  • Recently she made headlines by attacking a provision in Obama's stimulus plan that she said would lead to rationed health care.

  • During the 1930s and up until the end of World War II, many families subsisted on bread and very little meat (sometimes rationed).

  • Rasyunan ang túbig sa tinghuwaw, Water is rationed during droughts.

  • When his carefully rationed sleep periods eventually came around, he was more than ready for them, and slept like a log.

  • After an exciting and tiring day we reach a village and having seen the crews rationed, pitch our tents.

  • Well, she's rationed us—that's one good thing—and father really doesn't guess!

  • Luckily he cared nothing at all about food—though he refused to be rationed by a despotic Government.