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indigence

/in-di-juhns/US // ˈɪn dɪ dʒəns //

穷困潦倒,穷困,贫穷,贫困

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : seriously impoverished condition; poverty.

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Examples

  • William Booth’s famous poverty maps, which the social reformer used to catalogue affluence and indigence in late Victorian London, don’t extend this far south.

  • But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence.

  • It must be a dreadful situation for any man to have to choose between roguery and indigence.

  • Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.

  • Banished from his native country and without any resource, Diogenes was reduced to great indigence.

  • And a life of simplicity and indigence, which moderates the sexual desires, now seems to me good.

  • Ordinary minds avoid, as much as possible, recurring to past periods of indigence and inferiority of station.