| 单词 | poor |
| 释义 | poor I. 1. a. < they were so poor that they couldn't afford things — Mary Austin > < homes of poorer folk have their gardens — D.C.Buchanan > b. 2. a. < they gripe … loudly in winters of poor snow — R.S.Monahan > < was largely responsible for the poor attendance — R.W.Southern > < disappointed in the poor crop > b. < one poor pennyworth of sugar candy — Shakespeare > c. of lime 3. < the poor guard had started to cry out — S.H.Holbrook > < the poor things all got colds — Charlton Laird > 4. a. < inscription painted in poor Latin on a nearby wall — C.A.Robinson > < displayed very poor sportsmanship > b. < if it would be prudent to interrupt … on his poor trivial account — Thomas Hardy > c. < neighbors seemed to him poor fellows with too little spirit to be free men — V.L.Parrington > < they are base, poor, contemptible fellows — Robert Burton > d. < each one of those great sciences was in its dim and poor beginning — F.W.H.Myers > 5. a. < in first-class breeding condition, neither too fat nor in any way poor — Henry Wynmalen > b. chiefly dialect < looked poor after the hard winter > 6. < only in the remote and poorest sections … is the dull and drudging farmwife of thirty years ago met today — American Guide Series: Minnesota > 7. < the condescending … tone which betrays a poor opinion of the reader — John Farrelly > < the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one — Benjamin Franklin > 8. < drawbacks in operational use because of poor precision — J.P.Baxter b.1893 > Synonyms: < a pretty child bought from miserably poor parents under a contract — Lafcadio Hearn > < a man may be too poor to maintain a wife — Edward Westermarck > < the resulting waste of resources can make a poor people in a barren land — H.W.Odum > < as poor as church mice > indigent and needy, the first more literary than the second, both imply pressing or urgent want < the depression had left a number of them indigent, without state or federal relief — Green Peyton > < the skyrocketing costs put a rapidly increasing number of people in the medically indigent class — J.H.Means > < needy children in migrant farm worker families — Current Biography > < to aid needy and deserving students — Official Register of Harvard University > destitute implies dire and dangerous need, suggesting the calamitous and wretched < left destitute to face the prospect of a bleak and impoverished old age — John Galsworthy > < soldiers who by death or illness had left their wives and children destitute — A.V.D.Honeyman > penniless and impecunious can be equivalent in indicating the lack of money or resources on which to live or live decently and in not carrying the immediate connotations of calamitousness or wretchedness as does destitute. impecunious differs from penniless in often suggesting a habitual or chronic condition < this very beautiful English girl was a penniless governess, left stranded in Germany by an employer — Margaret Deland > < remembered by his associates as the bright but penniless youth whose climb to fame rivaled the most incredible of the Alger stories — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the impecunious artists and writers of New York — Jerome Mellquist > < my greatest treat as a small and impecunious Scots boy was to visit friends of my mother who were “big people” — Aylmer Vallance > poverty-stricken signifies indigent or destitute but stresses more the suffering or strain attendant upon dire poverty < the bulk of the pioneers was formed by poverty-stricken people who migrated from densely populated areas — J.F.Embree & W.L.Thomas > < a poverty-stricken primary school — H.R.Warfel > necessitous, less common than the preceding words, is equivalent to needy, sometimes connoting insistent demands for relief < fifty necessitous persons are being assisted at a total annual cost of over £1,500 — Veterinary Record > < in no sense of the word were they necessitous or poor — Jane Austen > < a greedy and necessitous public — Edmund Burke > II. < for you always have the poor with you — Mt 26:11 (Revised Standard Version) > < respected by both rich and poor > III. chiefly dialect variant of power IV. or poor cod V. < cash-poor countries > |
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