penury
英式音标：penury怎么读
美式音标：penury怎么读
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近义词： necessity
反义词： luxury
penury词义
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n. 贫困；贫穷
中文词源
penury 贫穷
来自拉丁语penuria,缺乏，稀少，来自paene,几乎，接近没有，词源同penumbra.引申词义物质缺乏，贫穷。
penury双语例句
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- 1. Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
- 受穷受苦使他未老先衰.
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- 2. 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. He was brought up in penury, without education.
- 他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。
来自辞典例句
- 4. A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.
- 连年歉收使小农陷入了一贫如洗的困境.
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- 5. He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.
- 这席话意指当时议员们经济窘迫,并提倡提高议员待遇.
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penury英文词源
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- penury (n.)
- c. 1400, from Latin penuria "want, need; scarcity," related to paene "scarcely."
penury实用场景例句
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- Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
- 受穷受苦使他未老先衰.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.
- 连年歉收使小农陷入了一贫如洗的困境.
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- He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.
- 这席话意指当时议员们经济窘迫,并提倡提高议员待遇.
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- He who sows misery, reaps but penury!
- 他造成悲惨!他造成贫穷!
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- The family lived in penury.
- 那家人生活贫困.
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- He was cradled in the lap of penury.
- 他自幼生活在贫困的环境里.
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- How can we quit penury?
- 我们怎样才能摆脱贫困?
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- Laid - off workers fall into penury.
- 下岗 职工陷入贫困.
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- First of all, raising the price only can limited many persons living in penury.
- 首先, 提高价格只能限制许多生活穷苦的人.
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- 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.
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- In all labour there is profit : but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
- 23诸般勤劳,都有益处.嘴上多言,乃致穷乏.
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