Penury
['penjʊrɪ] or ['pɛnjəri]
解释:
(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.
编辑:沃尔夫冈
同义词及近义词：
n. Indigence, destitution, beggary, mendicancy, pauperism, extreme poverty.
录入:温德尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Wart, privation, poverty, indigence, impecuniosity, destitution, beggary
ANT:Competence, wealth, affluence, pecuniosity
格伦录入
解释:
n. want: absence of means or resources: great poverty.—adj. Penū′rious showing penury: not bountiful: too saving: sordid: miserly.—adv. Penū′riously.—n. Penū′riousness.
编辑:卢克
例句:
- It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- For my part, I never troubled myself about this penury. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority--no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- This abode of penury may at least prove the disinterestedness of my conduct. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I was spared all chill, all stint; I was not suffered to fear penury; I was not tried with suspense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We had many foreign friends whom we eagerly sought out, and relieved from dreadful penury. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- When I speak of poverty, I do not so much mean the natural, habitual poverty of the working-man, as the embarrassed penury of the man in debt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
编辑:梅根