All 23 Uses of
ration
in
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- They'd given up their checkers and their nap and were arguing about how much cereal they were going to get in January (food was in short supply at the settlement, and although rationing had long since come to an end, certain articles were sold to them, at a discount, which were not available to the civilian inhabitants).†
- Since he hadn't returned to the barracks he hadn't drawn his rations, so he ate his breakfast without bread.†
- Picking up Shukhov's bread ration he handed it to him.†
- ...took a look at his ration, weighing it in his hand and hastily calculating whether it reached the regulation sixteen ounces.
*ration = a fixed portion of food given as a share
- He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd neverhad an opportunity to weigh them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting.†
- There was short weight in every ration.†
- And so, still clutching the hunk of bread, he drew his feet out of his valenki, deftly leaving inside them his foot rags and spoon, crawled barefoot up to his bunk, widened a little hole in the mattress, and there, amidst the sawdust, concealed his half-ration.†
- There was a time when they were so scared of the quarter-pound hunks the prisoners took to eat with their dinner that each of the squads had to make a wooden case for carrying the whole ration, after collecting it, piece by piece, from the men.†
- During the march it preyed on your mind: you tortured yourself by imagining that somebody else's bit of the ration might be substituted for yours.†
- His cheeks were sunken, he lived strictly on his rations, he earned nothing.†
- He had no jokes or smiles for his squad, but he took pains to see they got better rations.†
- ] on which the squad's rations for the next five days depended.†
- It was the edge of the hunk of bread in his little inner pocket--that half of his morning ration which he'd taken with him for dinner.†
- A cleverly fixed work report meant good rations for five days.†
- Seems to be fair enough: equal rations for all.†
- They didn't give me a free pass, they didn't provide me with even one day's rations.†
- I bought a couple of loaves from under the counter--they'd already started bread rationing.†
- The camp authorities didn't insist on his doing any real hard work, he received top-level rations, he lived in a separate cabin--what else did he want?†
- The place was in an uproar: someone's bread ration had been swiped during the day and the poor fellow was shouting at the orderlies and the orderlies were shouting bacL But the 104th's corner was empty.†
- He reached it without meeting a guard--only a couple of zeks arguing over their bread ration.†
- Shukhov stooped, passed between Tsezar's bunk and the captain's, and handed Tsezar his bread ration.†
- He'd eat six now and some more later, and still have next day's ration for work.†
- " "Our ration, you mean?" asked Shukhov.†
Definition:
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(ration) verb: to restrict the amount of something each person can have -- such as food or gasoline when there is a shortage, or when more is wanted than is available
or:
noun: a fixed portion of something that is given as a person's share -- such as goods of which there is a shortage, or food for soldiers in the field