Destitution

(noun.) a state without friends or money or prospects.

整理:莫尼卡

• I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Might he ask, was dying of destitution and neglect necessarily English? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The pupil's father--once a rich banker--had failed, died, and left behind him only debts and destitution. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

录入:泰茜