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

• Women have historically been subjected to social injustice and educational deprivation.
  长期以来，妇女在社会中一直受到不公正的待遇并被剥夺受教育的权利。
• 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。
• Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.
  多实验都证实了睡眠剥夺的危险。
• 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。
• The relationship between androgen deprivation therapy and periodontal disease has not been studied.
  雄激素去除疗法和牙周疾病的关系尚缺乏研究。
• Deprivation of political rights as a supplementary punishment is a kind of specific punishment of China's criminal law.
  附加剥夺政治权利是我国刑法中一种特定的刑罚处罚方法。
• We investigated whether IOR time course and magnitude of deaf participants in detection tasks was changed after auditory deprivation.
  探讨听觉障碍被试检测任务IOR的时程和量是否受听觉剥夺的影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sleep deprivation alters levels of the hormones that regulate food intake and body fat and increase hunger and appetite.
  缺乏睡眠会改变体内控制食物摄取和体脂肪的激素水平，增加饥饿感，促进食欲。