He was brought up in penury, without education.

他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。

Laid-off workers fall into penury.

下岗职工陷入贫困。

Extreme poverty; penury.

赤贫极度贫穷；

A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.

连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。

Chris is a black young salesman, who lives in penury with his wife and son.

克里斯是一名年轻的黑人推销员，和老婆还有幼子过着拮据的日子。

Mr Thomas was born in penury and grew up with bare feet and intestinal worms.

托马斯出身微寒，伴着光脚丫儿、肚里住着蛔虫的日子长大。

However, his finances remained precarious, with periods of prosperity and of penury.

然而，他的经济状况始终不稳定，时而富裕，时而贫困。

This is my prayer to thee, my Lord — strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.

这是我对你的祈求，我的主——请你铲除，铲除我心里贫乏的根源。

He was talking about the embarrassment penury - and advocating higher salaries for MPs.

这席话意指当时议员们经济窘迫，并提倡提高议员待遇。

In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.

换句话说，富人们要扶危济困，便建立了储蓄银行。

It led to a condition of penury which led him briefly into a debtor's prison, a thing I have always dreaded.

这直接导致了父亲极度的贫困，也使他被投入负债人监狱，监禁了一段时间，这是一件我一直害怕的事。

In other words, the suits on Wall Street gambled the country into penury and George Bush failed to stop them.

这就是说，华尔街的精英们拿国家作赌注，结果却输了个精光，而布什对这一切竟坐视不管。

One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease.

我们和另一个女人聊过。一开始，她穷困潦倒，有四个孩子或死于饥饿，或死于疾病。

For months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.

几个月以来，马贝尔就在这所冷冷清清的大房子里艰难地照料这三个承担不起家业的哥兄弟。

The marriage began in penury though things looked up after 1952 when Newton became the first contract photographer for American Vogue.

他们的婚后生活起初比较贫苦，但自从1952年牛顿成为《时尚》美国版的首位签约摄影师之后情况就有所好转。

The mental issues of penury students in countryside senior high school mainly are: self-contempt, dumps and interpersonal difficulties;

农村高中贫困生心理问题的表现主要是：自卑、抑郁、人际交往困难；

In other words, the prevalence of violent crime seems to predict mating preferences only in so far as it reflects a country's relative penury.

换句话说，就目前而言利用暴力犯罪的流行程度来预测择偶偏好只适用于一个相对拮据的国家。

From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless Labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.

他经历厂被迫失业、卑屈的依赖、赤贫和无用的劳动之后，现在正从事一个性质完全不同的劳动，这种劳动将得到充足的物质报酬。

There are five parts in this paper:The first part stresses the mutual action of economy, society, environment and penury based on general definition of penury.

第一部分在讨论贫困一般定义的基础上，重点研究贫困与经济、社会及环境的相互作用。

He warmed the hearts of Argentines with the comforting notion that it was the evil IMF, rather than their own mistakes, which was responsible for a once-rich country's penury.

他曾自我慰藉的宣称昔日富极一时的阿根廷的赤贫不是阿根廷人民自己造成的，而真正应该负责的是万恶的国际货币基金组织，这一言论极大的鼓舞阿根廷人民。

From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.--This is an American....

他经历厂被迫失业、卑屈的依赖、赤贫和无用的劳动之后，现在正从事一个性质完全不同的劳动，这种劳动将得到充足的物质报酬。

However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.

但是，近代中国的国贫民穷和社会公共意识缺乏，成为制约募捐效果的主要因素。

Can a wretch who wanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene of sore affliction or pinching penury; can that man call England or any other kingdom his country?

一个到处流浪的可怜人，一个终日辛劳却还忍饥挨饿的人，一个总是生活在痛苦或赤贫如洗的境遇里的人，会把英国或其它王国称作自己的国家吗？