penurious
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [p??nj??.ri.?s]
- 美式音標(biāo) [p??nj?r.i.ri.?s]
- 國際音標(biāo) [pi'nju?ri?s]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- adj.吝嗇的;缺乏的;貧困的
詞根記憶
- 來自penur(y)(貧窮;吝嗇) + ious→吝嗇的
英漢例句
- Raised on a hog farm in Hunan Province, she laughs off the penurious ways of her parents and grandparents.
李小姐在湖南省的一家養(yǎng)豬場長大,她嘲笑祖父母及父母吝嗇的生活方式。 - Small black and small armor Xi fair outside the tent, before gathered some mercenary soldiers at them, an eyes expose strange light-that is the penurious wind.
小黑和小鐵甲犀正在帳篷外面,在它們前面聚了一些傭兵,一個個目露奇光——那是貪婪的神色。 - But the price was right for penurious law students: seventy-five dollars a month.
但是房子的租金對于不大方的法學(xué)院大學(xué)生還是很合適的:每個月75美元。 - Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.
FORBES: An Honest Politician: Understanding Ben Bernanke - Only a few generations earlier, their ancestors had been living a desperate, penurious life in the intractable deserts of northern Arabia.
NPR: Armstrong, 'Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time' - He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.
ECONOMIST: Paul Sacher
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
詞組短語
- penurious s 貧窮的
- indigent penurious penury impecunious improvished 貧困的
- indigent penurious penury impecunious needy 貧困的