Destitution
[,destɪ'tʃuːʃn;,destɪ'tjuːʃn]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Indigence, want, need, poverty, penury, privation.
伊丽莎白編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Might he ask, was dying of destitution and neglect necessarily English? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 維萊特.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 維萊特.
- I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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