英:[ˌɪmpɪˈkju:niəs]
美:[ˌɪmpɪˈkjuniəs]
英:[ˌɪmpɪˈkju:niəs]
美:[ˌɪmpɪˈkjuniəs]
im·pe·cu·ni·ous
Im p kyu ni s
impecuniously (adv.), impecuniousness (n.)
词根:impeccable
adj.impeccable 无瑕疵的;没有缺点的
adjective
lacking funds; penniless.The cheap cafe was a haven for impecunious artists who sat for hours but ordered nothing but coffee.
"缺乏金钱",来自于1590年代,由 in- 的同化形式组成,意为"不,相反的"(见 in-(1))+拉丁语 pecuniosus "富有",来自 pecunia "货币,财产"(见 pecuniary)。相关词汇: Impecuniously; impecuniosity。
in- >entry 1 + obsolete English pecunious rich, from Middle English, from Latin pecuniosus, from pecunia money — more at fee
The first known use of impecunious was in 1596
impendverb
to threaten to occur immediately
impending danger
to be about to happen
an impending trip
archaic to hang out or over
impelverb
to urge or drive forward or into action
impelverb
to urge or drive forward or into action
impelverb
to urge or drive forward or into action
impedeverb
to interfere with the movement or progress of
impedimentnoun
something that impedes
a defect in speech
impedimentnoun
something that impedes
a defect in speech
impedeverb
to interfere with the movement or progress of
impedeverb
to interfere with the movement or progress of
impecuniousadjective
having little or no money
1 His grandfather was a servant, and his father, John Dickens, was an impecunious minor civil servant ultimately sent to the notorious debtors’ prison, Marshalsea.
2 With her nonprofit Fashion East initiative, now in its 11th year, Ms. Kennedy has granted dozens of impecunious designers a chance to show during London Fashion Week.
3 The first month of the year is when Iranians, after overspending for Nowruz, feel most impecunious.
新年的第一个月,为过节而大肆消费的伊朗人感觉最囊中羞涩。
4 She also fell in love with an impecunious British diplomat, who was rejected by her father.
她与一位贫穷的英国外交官坠人了情网,但遭到父亲的反对。
5 As a young, eager-to-please novelist, he had transformed his impecunious father into the whimsical and charming Mr. Micawber of “Copperfield”; after his father’s death came a more selfish and unforgiving version in “Little Dorrit.”
6 The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl reports that the overall personal-savings rate soared from 8 percent to 32 percent: People are avoiding air travel and restaurants not because they are impecunious but because they are prudent.
7 He is impecunious, does not know anyone who can lend mony.
他身无分文
8 They are independent, impecunious and able to tolerate all degrees of discomfort.
他们独立自主的,囊中羞涩的,并且能够忍受各种不便。
9 New Jersey, one of the most impecunious states in the union, was behind this week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning a federal ban on sports gambling.
10 He was utterly unlike any of the sly, egoistic, impecunious boyfriends I had tortured my parents with.
11 And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth.
12 But who might have had an interest in the impecunious inventor's demise?
13 And yet, as much as one might indignantly recoil, a marriage between the free market and the freedom to wed is not an impecunious union.
14 Prosecutors described Mr. Covlin as an impecunious professional backgammon player who risked losing his children and his lavish lifestyle if the divorce was approved.
15 All sensibility and no sense, Chekhov’s impecunious bluebloods are so immobilized in their fading privilege and waning wealth that they cannot act to save themselves from slow-moving disaster.
16 But it may the easiest way to let you impecunious.
但它也可能是让你变得身无分文最容易的办法.
17 He spent six years at London's Guildhall School of Music and now, remembering how impecunious he was, he has set up a foundation to help young musicians.
18 More bad news may be on its way for the newly impecunious - yesterday the benchmark Shanghai composite index slid again.
对这些最近落难的富豪来说,坏消息陆续有来——昨天上证综指又再度下跌了。
19 Pass do sthagain one time this, wang Yu is heavily in debt already, impecunious.
经过这一番折腾, 汪宇早已负债累累, 身无分文.
20 Mr. Maestri said that as he has gotten older, he has found Falstaff — an impecunious knight whose gold-digging efforts to woo a pair of married women end in humiliation — more sympathetic.
1 一文不名的
2 穷的
3 无钱的
4 不名一文
impoverished skint not have a bean not have two beans cells to rub together not have two brain cells to rub together flat wasted have not a penny on the turf
5 没有钱的
8 穷
9 贫穷的
poor needy submerged destitute indigent penurious beggarly necessitous out at elbow out at the elbow straitened hungry unprivileged depressed piss-poor deprived poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate
10 不名一文的
11 贫穷
poor needy submerged destitute indigent penurious beggarly necessitous poorly squalidity beggarliness need want poverty deprivation impoverishment pauperism pauperization poorness squalidness pauperize out at elbow out at the elbow hungry unprivileged necessity penury beggar mean depressed piss-poor deprived impoverish poverty-striken small narrow scrabbly depauperate misease misery pauper destitution neediness indigence depauperize ill-being cold purse
13 无钱
14 没钱的