Destitution
[,destɪ'tʃuːʃn;,destɪ'tjuːʃn]
解释:
(n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
安德鲁手打
同义词及近义词：
n. Indigence, want, need, poverty, penury, privation.
伊丽莎白编辑
例句:
- I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Might he ask, was dying of destitution and neglect necessarily English? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The pupil's father--once a rich banker--had failed, died, and left behind him only debts and destitution. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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