英语释义

• a state without friends or money or prospects

片语

a sumptous Destitution缺乏中生出丰裕来

shortage缺乏，缺少；不足

deficiency缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额

drought(Drought)人名；(英)德劳特

subjective destitution主体的匮乏

popular destitution民生凋敝

Be In Destitution颠沛

short of缺乏；不足；除…以外

live in complete destitution生活一贫如洗

frugality prevents destitution俭则不缺

need需要，必须； 特别需要，迫切要求；欲望；（食物、钱或生活来源的）短缺，缺乏；必需品；贫困（或困难）的处境

destitution U匮乏

be in destitution difficulty贫困

英汉例句

• Consider the skylines of Istanbul, Mumbai, and Sao Paulo, where stunning high-rises are surrounded by ungodly scenes of destitution and squalor.

  看看伊斯坦布尔、孟买以及圣保罗的高楼大厦吧，它们建得一座比一座高，一座比一座惊心怵目，但是遍布周围的却是赤贫、骯脏的贫民窟，那里的景象确实可以用惨不忍睹来形容！

• This is both their destitution and their wealth.

  这既是他们的窘困也是他们的财富所在。

• We pursued the policy of 「self-seclusion」 in the past, resulting in 「the destitution of the people and exhaustion of the financial resource」.

  过去实行「闭关自守」政策，结果搞得「民穷财困」。

• The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.

  世界银行的《1990年世界发展报告》中初次定义了全球贫困线——1天1美元。

• 「This destitution persists even though human conditions have improved more in the past century than in the rest of history,」 the report notes.

  报告指出，「尽管在过去一个世纪人类生活条件的改善超过历史任何时期，但赤贫现象依然存在。」

• Opulence in one part of humanity and utter poverty to the point of destitution in this age of advanced technology makes nonsense of scientific progress and universal humanism.

  在一个富裕的一部分，人类和赤贫的地步匮乏这一年龄的先进技术使得胡说八道科学的进步和普遍的人道主义。

• Unemployment: not having, or losing, a job; not having enough; losing their home — When you live close to the edge, destitution is never far away.

  失业：未就业，或丢失工作；所得很少；失去家庭——在生活接近危机的时刻，距离一无所有就不远了。

• Though the meekest of men, he was full of fire which flamed its fiercest in his patriotism, as though to burn to ashes the shortcomings and destitution of his country.

  虽然他是个极其温和的人，在爱国主义上他却充满了最炽热的火焰，仿佛要把他自己国家的缺点和贫困烧成灰烬。

相似词

poverty贫困；困难；缺少；低劣

absence没有；缺乏；缺席；不注意

necessity需要；必然性；必需品