penury
英['penjəri]
美['pɛnjəri]
- 贫穷； 吝啬
词态变化
复数: penuries;
双语例句
- 1. Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
- 受穷受苦使他未老先衰.
- 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.
- 3. He was brought up in penury, without education.
- 他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。
- 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.
- 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.