Destitute
['destɪtjuːt] or ['dɛstə'tʊt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
(a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
(v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.
(v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To disappoint.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. Indigent, needy, poor, penniless, necessitous, distressed, reduced, pinched, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, in need, in want, moneyless.
整理:威廉
同義詞及反義詞:
[See DEPRIVE_and_NEEDY]
校對:米利森特
解釋/意思:
adj. left alone: forsaken: in want needy—v.t. to forsake: to deprive.—n. Destitu′tion the state of being destitute: deprivation of office: poverty.
费理斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Being destitute, he has a claim on me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- To this neighbourhood, then, I came, quite destitute. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You suspect I have many enemies, then, Caroline, said Mr. Moore, and doubtless you know me to be destitute of friends? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Those are better off who, being destitute of advantage, cannot cherish delusion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- My sister was by nature destitute of the common feelings of anxious, petulant jealousy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A sentimental man, then, is one who has thoughts, ideas, notions; an unsentimental man is one destitute of thought, idea, or notion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Fanny's extreme good nature was always a Refuge for the Destitute. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I felt more miserable and destitute than I had done at any period of my running away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The forty we brought away with us were chiefly destitute, though not all of them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But what can be expected from one thus destitute of every manly feeling of compassion towards a poor, fallen, defenceless relative! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
錄入:尼科尔