in penury的意思|示意

One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease.

我们和另一个女人聊过。一开始，她穷困潦倒，有四个孩子或死于饥饿，或死于疾病。

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。

In other words, the suits on Wall Street gambled the country into penury and George Bush failed to stop them.

这就是说，华尔街的精英们拿国家作赌注，结果却输了个精光，而布什对这一切竟坐视不管。

There are five parts in this paper:The first part stresses the mutual action of economy, society, environment and penury based on general definition of penury.

第一部分在讨论贫困一般定义的基础上，重点研究贫困与经济、社会及环境的相互作用。

In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.

换句话说，富人们要扶危济困，便建立了储蓄银行。

However, in latter-day China, poverty of the country and penury of its people, and lack of communal awareness of the society became the key restrictive factors of the donative effects.

但是，近代中国的国贫民穷和社会公共意识缺乏，成为制约募捐效果的主要因素。