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 destitution [,desti'tju:ʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 穷困, 贫穷, 缺乏

  1. Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
    拮据极度缺乏或贫穷;贫困
  2. The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.
    对于众多赤贫的人们,这几袋食物简直是杯水车薪
  3. Ants will then be saved from destitution, for they'll have abundant supply.
    这样在万物凋敝的冬季,蚂蚁同样可以丰衣足食。


destitution
[ noun ]
a state without friends or money or prospects
<noun.state>


Destitution \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.]
The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources;
deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the
inundation caused general destitution.

  1. Up for Album of the Year is Prince's "Sign 'O' the Times," with its allusions to drug addiction, destitution and AIDS.
  2. The report points out that today's retirement policies "were developed during the Great Depression when the primary concern was to create jobs for the young" and protect the old from destitution.
  3. After all, he has been on the scene through nearly 50 years of Japan's evolution from cruel and arrogant militarism to postwar destitution to constitutional democracy to industrial restoration, and ultimately to today's role as a major industrial power.
  4. "I'm now teaching students who have grown up with soup kitchens and food pantries, and who consider such `emergency' provisions to be the `normal' way of dealing with destitution," says Poppendieck.
  5. The tendency is strong to see man as inherently moral, or at least malleable, with evil or irrational institutions the chief causes of crime, war, destitution and the failure of justice in economic and social areas.
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