penury

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• In other words, the prevalence of violent crime seems to predict mating preferences only in so far as it reflects a country's relative penury.(换句话说，就目前而言利用暴力犯罪的流行程度来预测择偶偏好只适用于一个相对拮据的国家。)
• From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless Labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.(他经历厂被迫失业、卑屈的依赖、赤贫和无用的劳动之后，现在正从事一个性质完全不同的劳动，这种劳动将得到充足的物质报酬。)
• He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.(这席话意指当时议员们经济窘迫，并提倡提高议员待遇。)
• One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease.(我们和另一个女人聊过。一开始，她穷困潦倒，有四个孩子或死于饥饿，或死于疾病。)
• Extreme poverty; penury.(赤贫极度贫穷；)
• 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。)
• Laid-off workers fall into penury.(下岗职工陷入贫困。)
• However, his finances remained precarious, with periods of prosperity and of penury.(然而，他的经济状况始终不稳定，时而富裕，时而贫困。)
• 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。)
• 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。)