Penury

(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.

编辑:沃尔夫冈

• It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• For my part, I never troubled myself about this penury. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• While you speak, there can be no oblivion of inferiority--no encouragement to delusion: pain, privation, penury stamp your language. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This abode of penury may at least prove the disinterestedness of my conduct. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I was spared all chill, all stint; I was not suffered to fear penury; I was not tried with suspense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We had many foreign friends whom we eagerly sought out, and relieved from dreadful penury. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When I speak of poverty, I do not so much mean the natural, habitual poverty of the working-man, as the embarrassed penury of the man in debt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

编辑:梅根