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destitute

英 ['destɪtjuːt] 美 ['destɪ.tut]

释义

adj.
没有;贫困的;贫穷的;赤贫的
n.
穷人;贫民
网络
缺乏的;穷困的;空乏
展开详细释义

adj.

1.贫困的;没有的

2.贫穷的

3.缺乏…的,无…的

4.一无所有的

5.无依无靠,难堪的

常用短语 1 组

destitute of
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在例句中理解 31 句

  1. Within a year, poor sales forced him to close the store, and bad business deals with the shady Baath Brothers left him destitute.

    不到一年,他的小店就因业绩惨淡而被迫关门。他跟心术不正的巴斯兄弟作了几笔失败的生意,结果倾家荡产。

  2. Knowing how much her own children loved presents at Christmas, Ann always tried to seek help for one or two destitute families.

    安知道自己的孩子多么喜爱圣诞节礼物,于是,她总是为一、两个贫困家庭寻求帮助。

  3. It is needless to add that this forest, as well as the coast already surveyed, was destitute of any sign of human life.

    不用说,这片森林和他们已经视察过的海岸一样,都是人迹没有到过的地方。

  4. They denied any intentional wrongdoing, saying they were only trying to help orphans left destitute by the quake.

    他们否认有任何不良企图,并说,他们仅仅是想帮助这些地震中的孤儿摆脱贫困。

  5. Starving, destitute and drenched in the tempest's wake, it is hard to see the Burmese summoning the strength to throw off the tyrants' rule.

    面对饥饿、贫困和风暴,缅甸人更难鼓起勇气来摆脱暴君的统治。

  6. When he died, his wife and his children were left destitute.

    他死后他的妻子儿女衣食无着。

  7. The recollection of your sister's destitute condition determined me on an effort to save my life.

    想到你妹妹的难堪的情况,我就下决心要保住性命。

  8. Bangbuerfu evil with evil, was banished to all functions, destitute, the poor in their homes have spent the rest of his life lord.

    邦布尔夫恶有恶报,被革去一切职务,一贫如洗,在他们曾经作威作福的济贫院度过余生。

  9. Fewer Chinese are destitute, but a great many are still poor, and food is an important part of their total consumption.

    中国贫困人口不断减少,但仍有很多人仍处于贫困之中,而食品是其总消费中的重要组成部分。

  10. Uzbeks, thousands of whom were made destitute by the violence, were reported to be especially affected.

    据报道,数以千计的乌孜别克族人受暴力影响严重,陷入贫困境地。

  11. Not that it must be for a moment supposed that our Women are destitute of affection.

    可能有人认为我们的妇女全无感情,但事实并非如此。

  12. There was also a sprinkling of those unfortunate outcasts of society--tramps and destitute, drunken loafers.

    还夹杂着一些被社会抛弃的可怜虫:流浪汉和一无所有的醉醺醺的无业游民。

  13. Not that she grew up destitute, but her parents worked for a living and she didn't spend her childhood in a palace.

    倒不是说她出身贫寒,而是她的父母要为了谋生而工作,她也不是在王宫长大。

  14. Medicaid , America's main health-care scheme for the poor, does not cover childless adults in most states, no matter how destitute they are.

    美国针对贫困人群的主要医疗计划——医疗补助计划没有惠及到大多数州中的无子女成年人,无论他们有多么贫困。

  15. He may soon be heading back for a trip seeking to shore up the support that keeps his destitute and derelict state alive.

    他很快可能会故地重游,这次是为延续朝鲜命脉而寻求中国的支持。

  16. As part of a deal the couple made with her still-destitute parents, Shyima was forced to replace her.

    作为这对夫妇和依然贫穷的父母之间协议的一部分,Shyima被迫接替了姐姐的工作。

  17. She was to die, and her daughter would be destitute .

    现在她快要死了,她的女儿就会无依无靠。

  18. and I wish with all my heart it may prove so; for else they will be destitute enough.

    我一心希望能如你的金口,否则她们就不堪设想了。

  19. When Mr. Smith died, his wife and children were left destitute.

    史密斯先生死时,他的妻子和孩子都陷入贫困。

  20. The situation is different for Nazeera Palli, a mother of two teenagers - a son and a daughter - left destitute by the tsunami.

    对NazeeraPalli来说,事实是另外一种情况。NazeeraPalli是一儿一女两个十多岁孩子的母亲,海啸使她陷入了贫困。

  21. First, my parents had paid for my tuition and I feared they would pull out their financial support and leave me destitute.

    首先,父母为我付学费,我担心他们撤出经济支持我会非常贫困;

  22. Disregarding the host is destitute or riches and honour , health or sick and weak , cursed city keep, the body in the host is other.

    不管主人是穷困或富贵,健康或病弱,狗都会守在主人的身旁。

  23. Napoleon, who certainly was not destitute of vanity, preferred power when he had to choose.

    对于拿破仑来说,他当然不是没有虚荣心,只是当他必须做出抉择时,他更向往权力。

  24. Though destitute, North Korea is ploughing ahead with its nuclear-weapons programme.

    朝鲜虽贫,可是一直以进行核武器项目而摸索前进。

  25. The FAO estimates that destitute North Korea needs about 5. 1 million tonnes of grain a year for food, animal feed and seed.

    联合国粮农组织估计,朝鲜每年需要510万吨粮食供给用于人畜食粮和粮食播种。

  26. Mr. Song recently described how his nearly destitute family had been forced to dig a well inside their farmhouse.

    老宋诉说着他一贫如洗的家庭如何不得不在屋里挖一口井。

  27. Since most of his clientele were the desperate or the destitute, their maiming or disappearance rarely went noticed.

    由于他的大部分客户都病入膏肓或一贫如洗,因此他们的致残或消失几乎无人察觉。

  28. Charles, if it is left to you, we shall soon be destitute.

    查尔斯如果光靠你的话我们很快会成穷光蛋的

  29. Lee ended a decade of no-questions-asked aid to the destitute North and called for a hardline push for Pyongyang to disarm.

    李明博终止了对贫穷的北方长达十年的援助,并且强烈呼吁北方解除核武装。

  30. Xia Huang said China would press on with "projects of transformation" in a destitute country with valuable reserves of oil and uranium.

    夏煌表示,中国将加紧在这个拥有宝贵的石油和铀资源的贫穷国家投资“改造项目”。

  31. The floods left many people destitute .

    这场洪水使许多人变得一无所有。

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