A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life.
他對現代生活的批評帶著一種特殊的苛刻。
樸素,樸實[U]
苦行,禁慾生活[P]
early Christian austerities
早期基督教徒的苦行
緊縮,擲節,度小月[U]
Although some company has accumulated a large number of foreign debts, many people still do not think the solution to financial crisis lies in austerity.
Unlike the arbitrator, the mediator does not have the ------- to make a decision, although he may generate solutions as to how the dispute may be resolved.