ration

• vt. 配给；定量供应
• n. 定量；口粮；配给量

来自拉丁语 rationem,思考，计算，部分，其主格形式为 ratio.引申词义定量，配给。

1. the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel);

"the rations should be nutritionally balanced"

2. a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

ration

ration: [18] Ration, like reason, comes from Latin ratiō, a derivative of the verb rērī ‘think, calculate’. This meant, among other things, ‘calculation, computation’, in which sense it has yielded English ratio [17]. In the Middle Ages it was used for an ‘amount of provisions calculated for a soldier’, and that meaning has channelled via Spanish ración and French ration into English as ration.

The ‘thinking’ sense of ratiō has reached English as reason, but its derivative rational [14] is less heavily disguised. Other English descendants of Latin rērī include rate and ratify [14], and the -red of hundred comes from a prehistoric Germanic *rath ‘number’, which came ultimately from Latin ratiō.
=> hundred, rate, ratio, reason

ration (n.)

1550, "reasoning," later, "relation of one number to another" (1660s), then "fixed allowance of food" (1702, often rations, from French ration in this sense), from Latin rationem (nominative ratio) "a reckoning, calculation, proportion" (see ratio). The military pronunciation (rhymes with fashion) took over from the preferred civilian pronunciation (rhymes with nation) during World War I.

ration (v.)

"put (someone) on a fixed allowance," 1859, from ration (n.); sense of "apportion in fixed amounts" is from 1870. Related: Rationed; rationing.

Before the War, much of Britain's food was imported and when German U-boats began attacking ships bringing food to the country, Britain went on rations (配给).

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As rationing came to an end in the 1950s, technology picked up and was used to mass-produce food," Tomes says.

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Critics have charged that this sensible idea would lead to rationing of care.

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In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing.

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As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.

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the weekly butter ration

每周的黄油配给量

牛津词典

We're on short rations (= allowed less than usual) until fresh supplies arrive.

在新的补给到达之前，我们的口粮定量不足。

牛津词典

Once these latest rations run out, the country will again face hunger and starvation.

最后这批口粮一旦用完，国家又要面临饥荒。

牛津词典

As part of the diet, allow yourself a small daily ration of sugar.

作为饮食的一部分，每天要摄入少量的糖。

牛津词典

I've had my ration of problems for one day─you deal with it!

我手头的问题已经够我忙活一天的了——你来处理这件事吧！

牛津词典

Eggs were rationed during the war.

战争期间，鸡蛋限量供应。

牛津词典

The villagers are rationed to two litres of water a day.

村民每天的用水量限定为两升。

牛津词典

The meat ration was down to one pound per person per week...

肉的配给量降到了每人每周一磅。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They have begun to issue ration cards for basic necessities such as rice and flour.

他们开始发行用来购买大米、面粉等生活基本必需品的定量配给卡。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Staples such as bread, rice and tea are already being rationed...

面包、大米和茶叶等日常必需品已实行配给。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the decision to ration food...

实行食物配给的决定

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Aid officials said that the first emergency food rations of wheat and oil were handed out here last month...

救助官员说第一批紧急援助的小麦和食用油是上月发放到这里的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Russian soldiers sampled the officers' rations and wolfed the superior food with delight.

俄军士兵尝了一下长官的配给食物，然后高高兴兴地把那些高级食物一扫而光。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...after consuming his ration of junk food and two cigarettes.

他像往常那样吃完垃圾食品、吸了两根烟后

柯林斯高阶英语词典

All teachers want to do better than others in this ration system resulted this phenomenon.

老师们都想在这个评价机制里面做得比别人好,就导致了这种状况的出现.

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La nation devient une machine à laquelle le ma? tre imprime une acc é l é ration effr é n é e.

人民终究有一天会对束缚感到厌倦,重新渴望自由.

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The author view point on the factors which may influence the contrast ration and storage stability.

通过实验,对影响内墙乳胶漆对比率和贮存稳定性的各种因素进行了分析.

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D é velo er la coop é ration é conomique et les é changes commerciaux.

发展经济合作,加强贸易往来.

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Je regrette d'interrompre notre agr é able coop é ration.

我为中断我们彼此间和谐的合作而惋惜.

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Have you used your ration of petrol for this week?

你用了这星期给你定量的汽油了 吗 ?

辞典例句

This article studies the ration problem of the credit of Chinese transition economy period.

本文研究中国转轨经济时期信贷配给问题.

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Elles a rouvent le principe de la convocation d'un Sommet du C. S . N . U . sur la non prolif é ration.

中法两国原则赞成召开联合国安理会防扩散问题领导人会议.

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The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left.

下一份供应量要到明天才能买,他的烟卷儿可只剩四支啦.

英汉文学

The small ration of rice could hardly satisfy his hunger.

配给他的“一点点”米并不能使他免除饥饿.

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Maritan praise ration highly and pose as ration.

马利坦推崇理性并以智性自居.

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Emergency expropriation purchase and sale by ration distribution of food.

三关于粮食之紧急徵购及配售.

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