Penniless
['penɪlɪs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
手打:丽塔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Moneyless, destitute, poor, necessitous, needy, indigent, distressed, pinched, reduced, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, in need, in want.
校對:杜鲁门
例句/造句/用法:
- The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Count Fosco, though not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Barely, said Gurth, though the sum demanded was more reasonable than he expected, and it will leave my master nigh penniless. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr. Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I just rejoiced that good luck had come her way, and that she had not thrown herself away on a penniless sailor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Poor little penniless, I have got a little interest--and who knows, perhaps the mouse may be able to aid the lion. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We should be just as penniless elsewhere as we are here, said Lydgate still more angrily. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Suppose he came back and claimed it, I would once more be penniless. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You, penniless! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He was a penniless man, some accounts say he was a bankrupt, and his only way of securing a ship was to get someone to entrust him with a command. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I am poor, I am penniless--should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Matters seemed tending worse and worse with him, and the situation of the Howe family in London, almost penniless, grew daily more and more precarious. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He pawned his patent and his last machine, and procured money to return to New York, where he arrived penniless in 1849. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I am worse than penniless, said he. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
校對:杜鲁门