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单词 pauper
释义
pauperpau‧per /ˈpɔːpə $ ˈpɒːpər/ noun [countable] old-fashioned Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpauper
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin ‘poor’
Examples
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  • Deliberately choosing to marry in an area full of paupers - Benjamin might just have well have been in Frome!
  • During those decades bands of pauper migrants went on the tramp in search of food and a living.
  • Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.
  • Some say Meurent died so abject a pauper that no papers were kept, no gravesite marked.
  • The fall was most dramatic among out-door paupers.
  • The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than some one without food, roof, or clothing.
  • The overseers didn't like working the pauper children, and having to beat them to keep them at their tasks.
  • There was nothing for girls, only drudgery and breeding, specially paupers like herself.
someone who is very poor
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