austerity

• n. austerity; simplicity; 渋さ; 厳しさ

PIE *saus, burn, droughtから。語源的にはsear, burntと同じ。

austerity (n.)

mid-14c., "sternness, harshness," from Old French austerite "harshness, cruelty" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin austeritatem (nominative austeritas), from austerus (see austere). Of severe self-discipline, from 1580s; hence "severe simplicity" (1875); applied during World War II to national policies limiting non-essentials as a wartime economy.

1. It was an era of austerity .

それは苦しい時代だった。

2.War was followed by many years of austerity .

戦争に続くのは、長年の経済緊縮だ。

3.A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life.

彼の現代生活に対する批判は特別な厳しさを持っている。

4.War was followed by many years of austerity .

戦争が終わってからまだ何年も厳しい日々が続いている。

5.The austerity measures will have little immediate adverse effect on the average Moroccan.

財政緊縮政策は、一般のモロッコ人に直接的な悪影響を与えない。