- [countable]
a fixed amount of food, fuel, etc. that you are officially allowed to have when there is not enough for everyone to have as much as they want, for example during a war （食品、燃料等短缺时的）配给量，定量 the weekly butter ration 每周的黄油配给量 a ration book/card/coupon (= allowing you to claim your ration of something) 定量供给簿；定量供应卡；配给券
Extra Examplesour daily ration of bread 我们每天定量配给的面包 I gave him my butter ration at breakfast one morning. 有一天早餐时我把我那份黄油给了他。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- daily
- monthly
- full
- …
- give somebody
- hand out
- provide (somebody with)
- …
- book
- card
- coupon
- …
- on a/the ration
- ration of
- rations[plural]
a fixed amount of food given regularly to a soldier or to somebody who is in a place where there is not much food available （给战士或食品短缺地区的人提供的）定量口粮 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。 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。
Extra ExamplesThe guards are going to cut our rations again. 看守又要克扣我们的配给了。 The refugees queued up for their meagre rations of soup. 难民排队等待少得可怜的配给汤。 They are living on starvation rations. 他们靠饥馑配给过活。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- daily
- monthly
- full
- …
- give somebody
- hand out
- provide (somebody with)
- …
- book
- card
- coupon
- …
- on a/the ration
- ration of
- [singular] ration (of something)
an amount of something that is thought to be normal or fair 正常量；合理的量
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Latin ratio(n-) ‘reckoning, ratio’.