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penurious

美 [pəˈnʊriəs]英 [pəˈnjʊəriəs]
  • adj.贫穷的;赤贫的;穷困的
penuriouspenurious

adj.

formal贫穷的;穷困的;赤贫的
very poor

penniless

adj

1
excessively unwilling to spend
parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
Synonym: parsimonious
2
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonym: hard up impecunious in straitened circumstances(p) penniless pinched

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  1. One penurious year , my parents used Swiss cheese plant .

    经济拮据的一年,我父母曾用绳状藤来代替圣诞树。

  2. 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养猪场长大,她嘲笑祖父母及父母吝啬的生活方式。

  3. Things have come full circle since penurious sailors from the Far East first arrived two centuries ago .

    两个世纪前,来自远东的贫穷水手初来乍到;

  4. He lived in the most penurious manner , and denied himself every indulgence

    他以最简朴的方式生活着,抵制一切奢侈

  5. Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses ; lived in a most penurious manner & denying himself every indulgence .

    少数慷慨的推动缓解了吝啬、节俭;以最节俭的方式生活&不让自己有任何放纵的行为。

  6. Financial innovation ( and downright chicanery ) recycled the huge surpluses of the rising world to penurious homebuyers in Middle America and dodgy speculators on the Costa del Sol .

    通过金融创新(以及彻头彻尾的欺骗),新兴世界的巨额盈余回流到手头拮据的美国中产阶层购房者和西班牙阳光海岸有问题的投机者。

  7. There are a lot of influence factors for our rural credit . Including the legal system of rural credit is not perfect , the organizational system has loopholes , the products is unreasonable , lacking of innovation , the rural insurance is penurious .

    导致我国农业信贷出现问题的影响因素很多,主要有我国农村信贷的法律法规体系不健全,农村信贷组织体系存在漏洞,信贷产品不合理创新不足,农业保险缺位,担保体系不健全等。

  8. The new morality tale becomes further muddled when you consider that San Francisco , praised for its penurious water ways , gets its life-supporting liquid from the Hetch Hetchy dam , in Yosemite .

    在用水方面以小气著称的旧金山,生活用水依靠约塞米蒂的赫奇-赫奇水坝,这就让眼下这则道义故事的情节愈发错综复杂起来。

  9. Different from building a single tunnel , building interchange tunnels will encounter many Problems that does not exit during building a single runnel . Furthermore , the underground interchange tunnels is at its early stage , so corresponding design and construction experiences are seriously penurious .

    与修建单一的隧道不同,要在地下修建多条互通立交的高速公路隧道,将会遇到各种单一隧道中不存在的问题,而且目前这方面的设计、施工均没有直接的经验,难度将会大大增加。