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
- Many people were so destitute they lived out of garbage cans.
许多人穷得只能靠捡垃圾里的食物过日子。 - 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。 - This Phnom Penh-based organisation tracked down 20 other master musicians, many of them destitute.
以金边为基地的这个组织拉拢了20位音乐大师，他们当中很多都穷困潦倒。 - Napoleon, who certainly was not destitute of vanity, preferred power when he had to choose.
对于拿破仑来说，他当然不是没有虚荣心，只是当他必须做出抉择时，他更向往权力。 - This state of society, however, is not destitute of a mercantile class;
然而，这种社会状况并不妨碍商人阶级的出现。 - 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。 - People don't like officials who are destitute of ordinary human feelings.
人民不喜欢缺乏普通人情感的官员。 - Many cities have slum areas or ghettoes, where people live in dangers or destitute conditions.
许多城市都存在贫民区或贫民窟，在这里人们在危险与贫困中煎熬。 - 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。 - You who are the richest person on Earth and behave like a destitute son.
你是世界上最富有的人，却像个穷苦的孩子。