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 ration ['ræʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 定额, 定量, 配给

vt. 配给, 定量供应

[医] 口粮, 定粮(每日配给的饮食)

[经] 限额, 定额(分配), 定量(供应)




    ration
    [ noun ]
    1. the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)

    2. <noun.food>
      the rations should be nutritionally balanced
    3. a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

    4. <noun.possession>
    [ verb ]
    1. restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war

    2. <verb.possession>
      Bread was rationed during the siege of the city
    3. distribute in rations, as in the army

    4. <verb.possession> ration out
      Cigarettes are rationed


    Ration \Ra"tion\, v. t.
    To supply with rations, as a regiment.


    Ration \Ra"tion\ (r[=a]"sh[u^]n or r[a^]sh"[u^]n), n. [F., fr.
    L. ratio a reckoning, calculation, relation, reference, LL.
    ratio ration. See {Ratio}.]
    1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a
    soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his
    subsistence.

    Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying
    according to their rank or the number of their
    attendants.

    2. Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an
    allowance; an allotment.

    1. Fights have broken out in this and other camps jam-packed with hungry refugees who fled Iraq and Kuwait after Iraq invaded Aug 2. They scramble and jostle for a meager daily ration of a piece of bread, a tomato and a cucumber.
    2. The government, which first distributed food ration coupons for two months, will issue them for six months starting in November.
    3. He sees this efficiency as resulting primarily from the opportunity such government control provides to ration medical care, denying it in particular to the critically ill elderly who he sees as having the least to gain from such treatment.
    4. Lifting of the ration system after seven years caused no joy since meat was so scarce.
    5. Meat ration coupons, which have allowed each person to buy five pounds of meat monthly from state-owned shops at controlled prices, will be abolished.
    6. Officials have declared a water shortage emergency in the communities east of San Francisco and are warning they may ration water to 1.1 million customers for the first time in a decade.
    7. The department's move helped douse speculation that corn prices would have to rise significantly in order to ration the supply of the recently harvested crop so it would last until the next harvest.
    8. Supreme Soviet deputy Mikhail Bronstein warned that the entire country would need a ration card system to make it through the transition period.
    9. Shortly before Noor's visit, thousands of refugees had been standing in parallel single-file lines stretching for more than a mile waiting their turn to receive their meager daily ration of a piece of bread, a tomato, a cucumber and a bottle of water.
    10. Gone are gasoline coupons and ration cards.
    11. The 5-year project will employ researchers from industry and the university who hope to develop highly automated processes that would allow America's larger food-processing companies to enter combat ration production, Rossen said.
    12. Some products have been seen recently in state-run specialty stores available at much higher prices but without ration coupons.
    13. Two years ago, the government actively encouraged large families, giving them extra ration coupons, help with housing, and subsidies for childrens' clothing.
    14. As an experiment, Urban said, one of Poland's 49 provinces would cease to use meat ration cards as of Jan. 1. This would allow authorities to gauge the effect of lifting the ration-card system, he said.
    15. 'We have no alternative but to introduce a system of ration cards for some basic foods.' Mr Kuchma also insisted that political considerations must give way to economics.
    16. Iraq announced plans to ration bread beginning today.
    17. Moscow gave Sofia only three hours notice Tuesday before cutting off electricity supplies, leading authorities to ration electricity in major cities. Earlier this month, the Soviet Union halted until year end supplies of coal to Sofia.
    18. In many other regions of the Soviet Union, people have needed "talons," or ration cards, to buy meat, sausage and other foodstuffs for years.
    19. Representatives from the American Medical Association, the American Society for Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians complained about the expenditure targets, saying such a plan would force physicians to "ration" services.
    20. And through mobile generators, he rents out electricity to round out the city's six-hour daily ration.
    21. The daily diet to which Cubans have been restricted during 30 years of rationing is not only inferior to the Cuban diet of the 1950s, but also to the nutritional ration allocated to slaves in the colonial Cuba of 1842.
    22. With "ration control" failing, Congress complained and the Pentagon cut the enforcement budget to $3 million.
    23. The city council voted to remove price restrictions on food sold in state stores without ration coupons.
    24. A water shortage and the steadily increasing camp population have forced authorities on Galang to cut the water ration from 20 liters a day per person to seven.
    25. Romanians are free to travel, ration cards have been eliminated and food once destined for export has been redirected to the shops.
    26. Thus, the report said, it seems more reasonable that producers will reduce hay portions to ration available supplies.
    27. Ahmed said the government hopes the higher price will ration consumption and combat smuggling.
    28. Poles now receive monthly gasoline ration cards based on the size of their automobile.
    29. She said she rode the bus to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals every day to take the dog a daily ration of home-cooked chicken.
    30. With the temperature approaching 120 and a harsh sun beating down, some weary Georgia guardsmen shuffled to the rear of an Army truck in the Mojave Desert for a ration of lasagna and beans.
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