penury [ˈpɛnjəri]

例句:

• Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
  受穷受苦使他未老先衰.
  
• 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.
  
• He was brought up in penury, without education.
  他从小一贫如洗，没有受过教育。
  
• Prepared by penury...for the privations of a military life.
  来自J. H. Newman
• You must get a place, or pine in penury.
  来自S. Johnson
• Hence the progression from penury to statuary.
  来自THETIMES