penury
常見例句
- Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance.
如果說還不會馬上貧窮，那么煩惱已經在不遠的地方出現了。 - Yet in California, where independent lobbies were spending freely in campaigns even before the Supreme Court recently allowed it, penury need not spell political death.
但是加利福尼亞在最高法院批準之前，獨立的游說者早已經可以將其資金無限制地花在競選上，所以貧窮并不意味著政治的終結。 - For two decades after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the defining image of Vietnam was the waves of bedraggled refugees washing up on its neighbours' shores, fleeing oppression and penury back home.
20多年前的1975年，當西貢陷落時，越南給人的印象是潮水般的落魄難民涌入鄰國的海岸，逃離充滿壓迫和貧窮的祖國。 - In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.
換句話說,富人們要扶危濟困,便建立了儲蓄銀行
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選 - This opened the door for a power grab that eventually drove the state toward semi-permanent penury.
FORBES: California's Third Brown Era - Today the former fighters live in penury as stateless refugees among the Israelis who betrayed them.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Lebanon's legacy in Afghanistan - All these conditions left the expelled in a state of abject penury after weeks of suffering.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Professor Netanyahu's lessons 返回 penury