pen·u·ry /ˈpɛnjəri/
貧困,貧窮
Pen·u·ry n.
1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. “A penury of military forces.”
They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat.
It arises in neither from penury of thought. --Landor.
2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.]
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penury
n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: indigence, need, beggary, pauperism,
pauperization]