Penury怎么读,Penury的音标和真人发音
英音  [ˈpenjərɪ]    
美音 [ˈpɛnjərɪ]    
音节划分:pen-ury

Penury是什么意思,Penury的意思是

n.赤贫,缺乏
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Penury的词源和记忆技巧

penury 贫穷
来自拉丁语penuria,缺乏,稀少,来自paene,几乎,接近没有,词源同penumbra.引申词义物质缺乏,贫穷。

Penury 的用法和双语例句“点击”或“选中”例句中的单词,就可以看到词义解释

Job-protection laws make it costly for firms to lay off workers , and where posts are sacrificed , the newly unemployed are preserved from penury .
就业保护法案使得公司开出雇员的成本很高,且新的失业者会受到保护而不至于贫穷无依。
" Poverty " describes two quite different phenomena : utter penury , of the sort experienced by the billion or so souls who subsist on $ 1 a day or less ; and the situation of people in rich countries who are less well off than their compatriots .
同样是贫穷,却是两种截然不同的想象:活在赤贫中的人每天只靠1美元或更少来过活,而富裕国家的穷人只是相对他们同胞来讲过着相对贫穷的生活。
Critics are right to say that for almost a third of the population to remain in such penury is a terrible thing , and to note that if the measure of poverty is raised to $ 1.25 day , the total swells by tens of millions .
批评人士说几乎有三分之一的印度人还处于贫困是十分糟糕的,特别是,如果将贫困标准提高到每天1.25美元,贫困人数将会增加数千万人。
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。
After all , other , less energetic countries in asia , africa and latin america have managed to create jobs , improve child health , reduce corruption and lift their citizens out of penury .
毕竟亚洲、非洲、拉美一些没有如此活力的国家都做到了创造就业、改善儿童健康、减少腐败、减少贫困人口。
Critics are right to say that for almost a third of the population to remain in such penury is a terrible thing , and to note that if the measure of poverty is raised to $ 1.25 day , the total swells by tens of millions . But on that measure , too , there have been gains .
批评家们认为三分之一的人口处于贫困状态是可怕的,这并不无道理,而且指出如果将贫困的标准提高到每天收入为1.25美元,贫困总人口将会再增加数以千万,但即使按这样的标准衡量,印度还是有进展。
Few now experience the raw penury of rowntree 's day .
现在很少有西伯姆时代的原始贫困存在。
Ms duflo reckons that an absence of hope had helped keep these people in penury ; brac injected a dose of optimism .
迪弗洛认为,正是因为缺乏信心,才将人困于贫穷,而brac则为之注入了一剂兴奋针。
The penury once even prompted a staff member to suggest operating a taxi company to generate revenue .
资金拮据甚至一度促使一名工作人员建议经营一家出租车公司产生收益。
" Death is slow in private equity , and it 's not in penury , " says tim jenkinson , professor of finance at oxford 's sad business school .
牛津塞得商学院的金融教授蒂姆-詹金森说:“私募基金在慢性死亡,贫困不会”。