释义 |
indigentin‧di‧gent /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/ adjective formal indigentOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French, Latin, present participle of indigere ‘to need’ - Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to indigent people with no money.
- Nevertheless, in fact as well as in fiction, even those almost totally indigent retained their pride.
- Poverty was merely the lot of the indigent.
- Public hospitals are concerned that they will not have enough money to treat indigent people not covered by Medicaid.
- They hardly imagined that there were so many indigent, yearning, crooked, canny inheritors on the earth.
- Was this some indigent artist he had picked up with in Paris?
very poor |