English主要词典
austerity
Universal Words
noun (plural austerities)
1 [U] a situation when people do not have much money to spend because there are bad economic conditions:
War was followed by many years of austerity. * austerity measures and economic reforms
2 [U] the quality of being austere:
the austerity of the monks' life
3 [C,usually pl.] something that is part of an austere way of life:
the austerities of wartime Europe