penury

noun

1. 贫困；贫穷
   the state of being very poor

1. N-UNCOUNT 赤贫
   Penury is the state of being extremely poor.
   1. He was brought up in penury, without education.
      他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。

1. He was brought up in penury, without education.
   他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。
2. Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance.
   如果说还不会马上贫穷，那么烦恼已经在不远的地方出现了。
3. Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
   受穷受苦使他未老先衰。
4. For months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.
   几个月以来，马贝尔就在这所冷冷清清的大房子里艰难地照料这三个承担不起家业的哥兄弟。
5. This is a tremendous achievement of the western model; its permanent abolition of material penury makes it more attractive still.
   这是西方模式取得的巨大成就；同时，它永久地消除了物质匮乏，这更增添了它的吸引力。
6. They would face penury unless they could secure employment very soon.
   除非他们能很快就业，否则将濒临赤贫的境地。
7. 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。
8. However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.
   但是，近代中国的国贫民穷和社会公共意识缺乏，成为制约募捐效果的主要因素。
9. While central Burma has been driven into penury by economic mismanagement and sanctions, areas such as Mong La, which lies at the heart of the golden triangle, have profited from drug trafficking and, more latterly, gambling.
   由于经济管理不善和制裁的原因，缅甸中部地区陷入了一贫如洗的境地，但勐拉等金三角中心地区，却受惠于毒品买卖以及后来兴起的博彩业。
10. He was cradled in the lap of penury. Are the seeds of criminal behaviour sown early in life?
    他自幼生活在贫困的环境里。犯罪行为的根源是否始自幼时？
11. Not just because they can afford to – Greek middle class penury will not trigger a financial market meltdown – but because it could finally force the Greek political class to face the truth.
    这不仅因为这些国家承担得起后果希腊中产阶级的贫困不会引发金融市场崩溃还因为这么做能够最终迫使希腊政治阶层面对现实。
12. God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.
    上帝，当他将这个世界赐给人类共有的时候，也令其必需劳动，而人的贫乏境况也会这样要求。
13. If a poor Chinese villager gets seriously ill it's a choice between treatment and penury – or dying.
    如果一个贫穷的中国村民得重病，在花钱治病还是治不起不治&等死中选择。
14. China is no longer the destination for those looking to accumulate hardship tales of scarcity, penury and adversity overcome.
    中国不再是那些为了填补传奇故事的空白，克服贫瘠和坎坷的族人的目的地了。
15. She found moving from her affluent home into student penury a very difficul texperience.
    她发现离开富裕的家过学生的拮据生活是一个非常困难的经历。
16. 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。
17. This is my prayer to thee, my lord-strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.
    这是我对你的祈求，我的主&请你铲除，铲除我心里贫乏的根源。
18. It was reformed greatly in 1999, constituting Urumqi petrochemical company made up of good productive assets. An episode of illness may reduce a poor household to penury, especially when they have to sell their productive assets in order to cover health care outlays.
    1999年经过较大的机构重组后，以生产性的优良资产为主组成了乌石化公司。一次疾病可以使一个贫困的家庭变得更加穷困，甚至也可以使富人变为贫困者；
19. The number of penury students was sharp enlarged by the college recruit and the increasing education charge. In order to lighten their economic pressure and realize educational equity, native supporting-education loan policy was implemented since 1999 in my country.
    高校扩招和高等教育收费使得高校贫困生数量急剧增大，为了减轻贫困生的经济压力，实现教育公平，1999年起我国开始实施国家助学贷款政策。
20. Strengthen the professional education to provide more employment, and promote the competing ability of the penury population.
    加强职业教育，提高贫困人口的就业竞争能力。
21. A Study of Urban Penury in China in the Period of Transformation
    转型期的中国城市贫困问题研究
22. The aim of the model was to realize substantial development, and the main content was about structural social problems. The social cost model system included three parts: the cost of employment and penury, the cost of human capital and the saving cost by improving institution.
    在可持续发展的目标下，以结构性社会问题为对象的社会成本核算体系主要包括三个部分：就业与贫困成本、人力资本和制度节约成本。
23. There are five parts in this paper: The first part stresses the mutual action of economy, society, environment and penury based on general definition of penury.
    第一部分在讨论贫困一般定义的基础上，重点研究贫困与经济、社会及环境的相互作用。
24. Mass media should be efficient in the strategy of West China anti-penury.
    在西部反贫困战略中，大众传媒应有积极作为。
25. An episode of illness may reduce a poor household to penury, especially when they have to sell their productive assets in order to cover health care outlays.
    一次疾病可以使一个贫困的家庭变得更加穷困，甚至也可以使富人变为贫困者；
26. On the Subsidy Policy and its Implementation for Penury Students during Compulsory Education Period in Guangdong Rural Areas
    广东省农村义务教育阶段贫困学生资助的政策与实施
27. For the reason causing the urban penury is complex and various, so we should consider this problem extensively: offer social aid to urban penury population;
    由于城市贫困现象日趋严重的原因是多样的和复杂的，因此要缓解城市贫困问题必须从多方面入手：为城市贫困人口提供社会救助；
28. Cooperative Medical System ( CMS) is one kind of community capital. By sharing in disease burden, CMS ensure peasant's basic demand for health service, reduce the occurrence of penury due to disease, especially in poor rural areas.
    合作医疗是一种社区筹资，它通过对疾病负担的分摊，保障农村、尤其是农村贫困地区居民的基本卫生服务需求，减缓农民因病致贫、因病返贫的发生。

noun

1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
   1. their indigence appalled him
   2. a general state of need exists among the homeless

   Synonym:    indigenceneedpauperismpauperization