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单词 penury
释义
penurypen‧u‧ry /ˈpenjəri/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpenury
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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