名词

1. A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life.
他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻。

1. 紧缩：整个studio的工作都是建立在这样一个假设上,即: 每次经济危机后,受到打击的经济体进入萧条状态,自发地或者被迫地采用了经济紧缩(austerity)的政策以求熬过这个经济低谷.

2. 严格,简朴：8. harry 掠夺,折磨 | 9. austerity 严格,简朴 | 10. convergence 聚合,集合点

3. 严峻：auspice#前兆 | austerity#严峻 | autopsy#验尸

4. 严正：austerity budget 短缺預算 | austerity 嚴正 | Australopithecine 南方古猿

1. 节衣缩食；艰苦朴素
Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.

e.g. ...an economic austerity programme.
经济紧缩方案
e.g. ...the years of austerity which followed the war.
战后的艰苦岁月

2. （物品的）简朴，无华
If you refer to something as showing austerity, you like its plain and simple appearance.

e.g. ...many abandoned buildings, some of which have a compact classical austerity and dignity.
许多废弃建筑，其中一些布局紧凑、古朴典雅

noun

1. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

Synonym: asceticismnonindulgence