Penury
['penjʊrɪ] or ['pɛnjəri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Indigence, destitution, beggary, mendicancy, pauperism, extreme poverty.
錄入:温德尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Wart, privation, poverty, indigence, impecuniosity, destitution, beggary
ANT:Competence, wealth, affluence, pecuniosity
格伦錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
編輯:卢克
例句/造句/用法:
- It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- For my part, I never troubled myself about this penury. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 維萊特.
- This abode of penury may at least prove the disinterestedness of my conduct. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 維萊特.
- We had many foreign friends whom we eagerly sought out, and relieved from dreadful penury. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 雪麗.
編輯:梅根