penury

penury 基本解释

n. 贫困, 贫穷, 拮据, 馈乏
[法] 赤贫, 缺乏

词组短语

1、lifted out of penury 摆脱贫困

2、penury assistance 贫困援助

3、penury poverty 贫穷的贫困

penury 用法和例句

1、penury of table

食物的缺乏

2、penury of thought.

思想的贫乏

3、The family lived in penury.

那家人生活贫困。

4、Laidoff workers fall into penury.

下岗职工陷入贫困。

5、He who sows misery, reaps but penury!

他造成悲惨!他造成贫穷!

6、He was cradled in the lap of penury.

他自幼生活在贫困的环境里。

7、Peoples in Africa are living in penury.

非洲的人民过着贫穷的生活。

8、Chill penury repressed their noble rage

令人沮丧的贫穷迫使他们克制自己全然有理的愤怒

9、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。

10、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。