a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime (戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)等供應(yīng)短缺時(shí)期政府給予的)配給量,定量 1947 saw the bread ration reduced on two occasions. 1947年面包配給量曾兩度下調(diào)。 ■(一般作 rations)an amount of food supplied on a regular basis, especially to members of the armed forces during a war (尤指戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)時(shí)期配發(fā)給軍人的)口糧;給養(yǎng) ■(rations)food; provisions 口糧;供應(yīng)品 their emergency rations ran out. 他們的應(yīng)急物品用完了。 ■(figurative)a fixed amount of a particular thing (喻)(東西的)一定數(shù)量 holidaymakers who like a generous ration of activity. 喜歡大量活動(dòng)的度假者。
verb
[with obj.](一般作be rationed)allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity) 配給供應(yīng),定量供應(yīng) petrol was so strictly rationed that bikes were always in demand. 汽油供應(yīng)嚴(yán)格定量,自行車因此總是供不應(yīng)求。 ■(ration someone to)allow someone to have only (a fixed amount of a certain commodity) 定量配給 the population was rationed to four litres of water per person per day. 民眾每人每天配給四升水。
常用詞組 come up (或 be given) with the rations
(military slang)(of a medal) be awarded automatically and without regard to merit (軍俚)(勛章)按人頒發(fā)(并非根據(jù)論功行賞原則授予)
語(yǔ)源
early 18th cent.: from French, from Latin ratio(n-) 'reckoning, ratio'