penniless

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈpen.i.ləs]
• 美式音标 [ˈpen.i.ləs]
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基本解释

• adj. 身无分文的；贫穷的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• He is in reality penniless.
  其实他身无分文。
  《新英汉大辞典》
• Food was provided for penniless but hungry travelers at the two or three daily feed-ins.
  每天举行两三次施舍， 为身无分文的饥饿行人供应食物。
  《新英汉大辞典》
• This was how my father joined the long line of penniless and miserable Turkish intellectuals who had been walking the streets of Paris for a century already.
  这样我父亲就加入了身无分文、悲惨的大军。 土耳其的知识分子在巴黎的街头巷尾游荡已经有一个世纪的历史了。

权威例句

• The penniless family moved from a rural Ecuador village to the port city of Guayaquil.
  FORBES: Slippery Situation
• Some accounts say Nicholas was penniless, but if he was he did remarkably well.
  ECONOMIST: Jay Pritzker
• An army is marching into California — an army made up of penniless unemployed, desperately seeking Utopia.
  NPR: 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning

词组短语

短语

• Even Penniless 即使一无所有;零件;零件代理商
• Finally Penniless 最后一贫如洗
• He penniless 他身无分文
• penniless s 赤贫的;贫困的;身无分文的
• Penniless habit 养成吃苦耐劳

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• having no money

柯林斯英英字典

• Someone who is penniless has hardly any money at all.