indigent
英 ['?nd?d?(?)nt]
美['?nd?d??nt]
- adj. 貧困的;貧窮的(副詞indigently)
GRE暢通詞匯
中文詞源
indigent 貧窮的
indi-,在內(nèi),在里,來自in-的擴(kuò)大形式,-ig,缺乏,需要,來自拉丁語egere,需要的,來自PIE*angh,緊的,緊縮的,詞源同anguish,anxious.引申詞義貧窮的。
英文詞源
- indigent (adj.)
- c. 1400, from Old French indigent, from Latin indigentem (see indigence). As a noun, "poor person," from early 15c.
雙語例句
- 1. The town government is responsible for assistance to indigent people.
- 鎮(zhèn)政府負(fù)責(zé)給窮人提供幫助.
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- 2. With the increasing of Substance, the spiritual resource indigent.
- 現(xiàn)代社會,隨著物質(zhì)財富的增加, 換來的卻是精神資源的貧乏.
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- 3. His single - mindedness was forged in indigent childhood.
- 童年的貧苦生活養(yǎng)成了李明博堅定的性格.
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- 4. Most individual indigent people facing charges used to defense attorneys from state - founded state - funded public defender offices.
- 大部分面臨指控的貧困人群都請由國家資助的公立辯護(hù)律師事務(wù)所的辯護(hù)律師.
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- 5. After all, it is not asthe perpetrators of these shenanigans were indigent, let alone indentured slaves.
- 畢竟, 這些詭計的作惡者并不貧困, 更不是被契約約束的奴隸.
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