penury
发音
英 [ˈpenjəri]
美 [ˈpenjəri]
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- n.
- 赤贫，缺乏
单词词源
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。
反义词
n.
双语例句
- 1. Few now experience the raw penury of rowntree 's day .
- 现在很少有西伯姆时代的原始贫困存在。
- 2. Ms duflo reckons that an absence of hope had helped keep these people in penury ; brac injected a dose of optimism .
- 迪弗洛认为，正是因为缺乏信心，才将人困于贫穷，而brac则为之注入了一剂兴奋针。
- 3. The penury once even prompted a staff member to suggest operating a taxi company to generate revenue .
- 资金拮据甚至一度促使一名工作人员建议经营一家出租车公司产生收益。
- 4. " Death is slow in private equity , and it 's not in penury , " says tim jenkinson , professor of finance at oxford 's sad business school .
- 牛津塞得商学院的金融教授蒂姆-詹金森说：“私募基金在慢性死亡，贫困不会”。
- 5. And if mohammed was able to persist , in penury and peril , and keep his faith and that of his followers long enough to lay the foundations of a religion that lives on 1400 years later in one and a half billion souls , it was because he too had the virtues of a hero .
- 而穆罕默德能够在贫困和危险中坚持下去，和他的追随者一起坚守信仰，为活在15亿灵魂之中、延续1400年的宗教奠定基石，也是因为他有着英雄的品德。