penury

英 [ˈpenjəri]

美 [ˈpenjəri]

n.  贫困; 贫穷

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BNC.32945 / COCA.32763

牛津词典

noun

• 贫困；贫穷
  the state of being very poor

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 赤贫
  Penuryis the state of being extremely poor.
  1. He was brought up in penury, without education.
     他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。

英英释义

noun

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  1. their indigence appalled him
  2. a general state of need exists among the homeless
  Synonym:indigenceneedpauperismpauperization

双语例句

• He was cradled in the lap of penury. Are the seeds of criminal behaviour sown early in life?
  他自幼生活在贫困的环境里。犯罪行为的根源是否始自幼时？
• If a poor Chinese villager gets seriously ill it's a choice between treatment and penury – or dying.
  如果一个贫穷的中国村民得重病，在花钱治病还是治不起不治&等死中选择。
• A Study of Urban Penury in China in the Period of Transformation
  转型期的中国城市贫困问题研究
• She found moving from her affluent home into student penury a very difficul texperience.
  她发现离开富裕的家过学生的拮据生活是一个非常困难的经历。
• Mr Thomas was born in penury and grew up with bare feet and intestinal worms.
  托马斯出身微寒，伴着光脚丫儿、肚里住着蛔虫的日子长大。
• A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
  连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。
• For months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.
  几个月以来，马贝尔就在这所冷冷清清的大房子里艰难地照料这三个承担不起家业的哥兄弟。
• He was brought up in penury, without education.
  他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。
• However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.
  但是，近代中国的国贫民穷和社会公共意识缺乏，成为制约募捐效果的主要因素。
• The aim of the model was to realize substantial development, and the main content was about structural social problems. The social cost model system included three parts: the cost of employment and penury, the cost of human capital and the saving cost by improving institution.
  在可持续发展的目标下，以结构性社会问题为对象的社会成本核算体系主要包括三个部分：就业与贫困成本、人力资本和制度节约成本。