rations

英 [ˈræʃnz]

美 [ˈræʃnz]

n.  (食品、燃料等短缺时的)配给量，定量; (给战士或食品短缺地区的人提供的)定量口粮; 正常量; 合理的量
v.  限定…的量; 定量供应; 配给
ration的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 定量;配给量
  When there is not enough of something, yourrationof it is the amount that you are allowed to have.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB （通常指由于紧缺）配给，定量供应
  When somethingis rationedby a person or government, you are only allowed to have a limited amount of it, usually because there is not enough of it.
  1. 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。
  2. ...the decision to ration food...
     实行食物配给的决定
  3. Motorists will be rationed to thirty litres of petrol a month...
     汽车司机每月的油量将限定为30升。
  4. There's a black market in rationed goods.
     实行定量配给的商品存在黑市交易。
• N-PLURAL （给灾民或士兵的）给养，口粮
  Rationsare the food which is given to people who do not have enough food or to soldiers.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• N-COUNT 通常的量;定额
  Yourration ofsomething is the amount of it that you normally have.
  1. ...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
• See also:rationing

双语例句

• In recent weeks the WFP has quietly started reducing rations and closing down distribution operations to conserve cash.
  最近几周，世界粮食计划署已悄悄开始削减配额和停止部分分发行动，以保存现金。
• Workers 'rations are diluted with honey and pollen.
  工蜂的口粮则是由蜂蜜和花粉稀释了的王浆。
• Emergency food rations. We ought to decide what priority the emergency rated.
  紧急时备用应急的食物配量我们应当判断紧急情况的轻重缓急。
• I have been ordered to serve out rations to soldiers.
  我奉命给士兵们分发口粮。
• British sailors received regular rum rations from the 18th century until the 1970s.
  英国水手从18世纪到1970年代得到定期的兰姆酒配给量。
• 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。
• The government had to reduce monthly meat rations to3 kilograms a person.
  政府不得不把每月的肉食品供应定量降到一人3公斤。
• Fed the prisoners miserable rations.
  供给犯人少得可怜的定量。
• If something really does happen, we can use this as emergency rations.
  如果真有事情发生，我们可以把这个当成紧急口粮使用。
• Rations were served to the troops.
  口粮已发给各部队。