penurious

1 One penurious year, my parents used a Swiss cheese plant.

在经济拮据的一年，我父母曾用绳状藤来代替圣诞树。

2 And they were ripe pickings for the gamblers because they played for a penurious owner, Charles Comiskey.

3 The penurious school system had to lay off several teachers.

4 The respectable and the penurious were often the same people.

5 Flickinger said the contract included “extremely favorable benefits and pension plan programs, particularly compared to the more penurious total compensation at discount stores,” referring to Wal-Mart and Target. 

6 The penurious nicotine levels proved frustrating and costly for South Korean vapers.

7 We speak of persons as covetous in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living, niggardly in dispensing.

8 Both album and turntable were all the rage, and the Technics was the first quality direct-drive turntable that a penurious college student could afford.

9 They were fighting under the British cross or eking out a penurious half-pay life in little Brunswick, near their old commander-in-chief.

10 That image — of a penurious outsider thrown into the deep end of the Hollywood glamour pool — encapsulates Sandberg’s strange story.

11 Her father had left high school at 14 to support his penurious mother and work as a delivery boy in a cotton trading company.

12 The worst of those penurious days have perhaps passed.

13 Nobody should be surprised when the present House of Representatives, dominated by penurious reactionaries, produces a stingy response to a danger that calls for compassionate largess.

14 "He lived in the most penurious manner , and denied himself every indulgence" (William Godwin ).

以最节俭的方式生活——不让自己有任何放纵的行为。

15 His temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary.

16 They were wealthy, and though economical and even penurious in some respects, each possessed an inordinate love of dress, and was willing to spend large sums for gorgeous fabrics made up in the latest styles.

17 There his followers learn about his penurious childhood and his own children's lives.

18 In proof of his penurious disposition, it is recorded of him that he invariably dined alone, and a soiled proof sheet, or an old newspaper, was his common substitute for a table-cloth.

19 From The Bible in Spain he must have drawn a very considerable amount, considerable, that is, for a man whose habits were always somewhat penurious. 

20 Since 1977, the Cornelia Street Café has been a bulwark for aspiring and established, prosperous and penurious local poets, philosophers, performers and prophets and the people who love them.

1 穷的

impecunious

2 贫瘠

poor dead hungry arid unfruitful jejune poverty aridity hungriness

3 吝啬

narrowfisted small close near cheap tight Scottish stingy miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chintzy niggardly tight-fisted mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted hardfisted scrimpy begrudgingly scantily meanly churlishly parsimoniously closeness parsimony stinginess churlishness illiberality penny-pinch screw pinch scotch mean beggarly cheese-paring grasping chary niggard tightfisted closefisted nearly penury skimp scant hungry miserable sordid skimpy covetous ungenerous costive scrimp narrow-fisted little narrow managing skinny shabby paltry scaly scanty screwy grudging pinchpenny gripple skimpingly stingily charily pikerism nearness meanness smallness littleness miserliness chariness iron fisted

4 不足的

scanty skimpy slender short lean insufficient defective scarce pathetic deficient scant pitiful meagre challenged niggardly mal- bad poor limited slight spare slim shy failed faint inadequate marginal stringent wanting lacking exiguous

5 缺乏的

thin poor void defective scarce barren deficient wanting scant challenged light shy absent devoid indigent scanty strapped jimp

6 不足

bad short poor limited slight spare slim shy failed faint inadequate defective marginal scarce stringent slender deficient wanting skimpy meagre lacking scanty exiguous barely want failure poverty deficiency deficit shortage minus imperfection shortfall scarcity dearth penury non- under- strap fail be nothing like run low to seek fall short lack for

7 拮据

penury in queer street feel the draught cash-strapped squeeze

8 小气

small close cheap tight petty stingy mouldy illiberal parsimonious penny-pinching niggardly tight-fisted mingy cheese-paring parsimony

9 贫瘠的

poor dead hungry arid unfruitful jejune

10 吝啬的

narrowfisted small close near cheap tight Scottish stingy miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish penny-pinching chintzy niggardly tight-fisted mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted hardfisted scrimpy scotch mean beggarly chary hungry ungenerous ungiving cheese-paring grasping niggard tightfisted closefisted miserable sordid skimpy covetous costive narrow-fisted little narrow managing skinny shabby scant paltry scaly scanty screwy grudging pinchpenny gripple iron fisted

11 吝惜

stint grudge spare envy scant begrudge

12 贫乏

dry poor lean miserable barren skimpy washy starveling jejune necessitous poorly poverty poorness

13 赤贫

dirt poor impoverished destitute beggarly penury grinding poverty destitution impoverish pauperize

14 穷困

badly off penniless straitened misery

15 穷

impecunious

16 小气的

small cheap tight petty stingy mouldy illiberal parsimonious penny-pinching niggardly tight-fisted mingy cheese-paring chintzy mean close near ungiving

17 贫穷的

poor needy submerged destitute indigent beggarly impecunious necessitous out at elbow out at the elbow hungry unprivileged deprived piss-poor poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate needful

18 赤贫的

deprived destitute poverty-stricken beggarly down and out dirt poor stony broke impoverished

19 缺乏

light void shy absent scarce devoid scant destitute indigent scanty strapped jimp scantly oligo- -penia need want short lack failure absence poverty defect deficiency scarcity insufficiency dearth paucity privation penury fail pinch starve fail of be taken short in defect

20 贫乏的

dry poor lean miserable barren skimpy washy starveling jejune necessitous

21 拮据的

cash-strapped

22 贫穷

poor needy submerged destitute indigent beggarly impecunious necessitous poorly squalidity beggarliness need want poverty deprivation impoverishment pauperism pauperization poorness squalidness pauperize out at elbow out at the elbow penury indigence hungry unprivileged necessity beggar deprived piss-poor impoverish poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate misease misery pauper destitution neediness depauperize ill-being cold purse needful hardship beggary

23 穷困的

badly off penniless straitened