If so, why don't we just kill off destitute children around the globe instead of giving donations to Oxfam?(如果能,我们何不停止向施乐会捐赠,而直接将全世界穷困的孩子赶尽杀绝呢?)
The term 'service' suggests that we have to give up our jobs and money to go help the poor and destitute.(“服务”这个词告诉我们需要放弃我们的工作和金钱去帮助贫困的人。)
You are very kind, sir, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may prove so; for else they will be destitute enough.(我相信你是个好心肠的人,先生;我一心希望能如你的金口,否则她们就不堪设想了。)
Some libraries are dealing with large numbers of destitute patrons.(一些图书馆要接待大量贫困的顾客。)
Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.(这儿是一家照顾精神病患者和赤贫人员的收容所。)
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food.(若是弟兄,或是姐妹,赤身露体,又缺了日用的饮食。)
I had liv'd a dreadful Life, perfectly destitute of the Knowledge and Fear of God.(过去,我过着可怕的生活,对上帝完全缺乏认识和敬畏。)
Walking also to face that eventually the face of destitute.(最终走来竟也是要面临众叛亲离的面貌。)
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.(并那坏了心术,失丧真理之人的争竞。他们以敬虔为得利的门路。)
The situation is different for Nazeera Palli, a mother of two teenagers - a son and a daughter - left destitute by the tsunami.(对NazeeraPalli来说,事实是另外一种情况。NazeeraPalli是一儿一女两个十多岁孩子的母亲,海啸使她陷入了贫困。)