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单词
penury
释义
penury
pen‧u‧ry
/
ˈpenjəri
/
noun
[uncountable]
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
penury
Origin:
1400-1500
Latin
penuria
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
As long as they had their beloved stock market, they seemed not to mind their relative
penury
.
But
penury
, though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress.
From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into
penury
by conceding 18 unanswered points.
If any doctor had depended on us for his living, then he would have died in
penury
.
It transforms a state of wealth into a state of
penury
.
The show went into
penury
, I think.
While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of
penury
.
formal
the state of being very poor
SYN
poverty
:
He died in penury in 1644.
—
penurious
/
pəˈnjʊəriəs
$
-ˈnʊr-
/
adjective
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