austerity
名词 n.
美 /ɔˈstɛɹɪti/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
— The most rigid and noted of the English ladies resident in the French capital acknowledged and countenanced her; the virtuous Lady Elderbury, the severe Lady Rockminster, the venerable Countess of Southdown—people, in a word, renowned for austerity, and of quite a dazzling moral purity:—so great and beneficent an influence had the possession of ten (some said twenty) thousand a year exercised upon Lady Clavering’s character and reputation
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Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
— One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
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A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
— He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
- Sourness and harshness to the taste.
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词汇关系
词源
From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.
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