destitute
英 [ˈdestɪtjuːt]
美 [ˈdestɪtuːt]
adj. 贫困的; 贫穷的; 赤贫的; 穷人; 贫民; 缺乏; 没有; 毫无
复数：destitutes
Collins.1 / BNC.18505 / COCA.16544
牛津词典
adj.
- 贫困的；贫穷的；赤贫的
without money, food and the other things necessary for life- When he died, his family was left completely destitute.
他死时家里一贫如洗。
- When he died, his family was left completely destitute.
- 穷人；贫民
people who are destitute - 缺乏；没有；毫无
lacking sth- They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.
他们似乎一点人情味都没有。
- They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 赤贫的;贫困的;一无所有的
Someone who isdestitutehas no money or possessions.- ...destitute children who live on the streets.
流落街头的贫困儿童
- ...destitute children who live on the streets.
英英释义
adj
- completely wanting or lacking
- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning
- poor enough to need help from others
双语例句
- The guest-house is intended to supply free food to monks and the destitute.
旅馆是用来向僧侣和贫困者提供免费食物的。 - He is so destitute that he even longs to eat the food assigned to the pigs.
他是如此贫困，他甚至渴望分配给猪吃的食物。 - But we keep thinking that we are only a destitute son or daughter.
但我们一直以为我们只是穷困无助的儿女。 - But grow! Increase with the years! Oh-how strange that I should be called a destitute woman!
但是随着成长！岁月流逝！哦，我怎么能被说成是一无所有的女人！ - They denied any intentional wrongdoing, saying they were only trying to help orphans left destitute by the quake.
他们否认有任何不良企图，并说，他们仅仅是想帮助这些地震中的孤儿摆脱贫困。 - She was to die, and her daughter would be destitute.
现在她快要死了，她的女儿就会无依无靠。 - Israel, fighting for its survival, flooded by destitute immigrants, looked precarious to them.
当时的以色列为了生存而身陷战火，国内充斥着大量穷困潦倒的移民，在美国犹太人的眼里岌岌可危。 - She and her husband would be dispossessed of the house and left destitute.
她和她丈夫将失去这栋房子，落得一无所有。 - But Mother Teresa toiled a lifetime to bring a ray of sunshine in the lives of the destitute.
而特蕾莎修女辛劳一生，为的是给贫困者带去了一缕阳光。 - The billions of people there will become destitute and we will come to their aide.
那里的数十亿人将成为一贫如洗，我们要帮助他们。