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pauper

/paw-per/US // ˈpɔ pər //UK // (ˈpɔːpə) //

穷光蛋,贫民,穷人,贫民百姓

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
    • : a very poor person.

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Examples

  • He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

  • So, the prince in the old saying “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper” might need to retire.

  • So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

  • This woman had three sisters, four brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper's bequest.

  • Mr. Royall was too close a man to give a dollar a day to a smart girl when he could get a deaf pauper for nothing.

  • Let us take the policy laid down with regard to each phase of the indoor pauper's life.

  • There was, of course, to be no alcoholic drink for any class of pauper except by written medical order.