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penurious

P 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [pəˈnjʊə.ri.əs]
  • 美式音标 [pəˈnjʊr.i.ri.əs]
  • 国际音标 [pi'njuəriəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj.吝啬的;缺乏的;贫困的

词根记忆

  • 来自penur(y)(贫穷;吝啬) + ious→吝啬的

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    penury:贫困;贫穷。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • 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。
  • Small black and small armor Xi fair outside the tent, before gathered some mercenary soldiers at them, an eyes expose strange light-that is the penurious wind.
    小黑和小铁甲犀正在帐篷外面,在它们前面聚了一些佣兵,一个个目露奇光——那是贪婪的神色。
  • But the price was right for penurious law students: seventy-five dollars a month.
    但是房子的租金对于不大方的法学院大学生还是很合适的:每个月75美元。
  • 权威例句

  • Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.
    FORBES: An Honest Politician: Understanding Ben Bernanke
  • Only a few generations earlier, their ancestors had been living a desperate, penurious life in the intractable deserts of northern Arabia.
    NPR: Armstrong, 'Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time'
  • He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.
    ECONOMIST: Paul Sacher

词组短语

    短语

  • penurious s 贫穷的
  • indigent penurious penury impecunious improvished 贫困的
  • indigent penurious penury impecunious needy 贫困的

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • extremely poor
  • 柯林斯英英字典

  • niggardly with money
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