beggary

英 ['begɜːrɪ] 美 ['begərɪ]

• n. 赤贫

英英释义

Noun:

1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant;

   "they were reduced to mendicancy"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. His speculation reduced him to beggary.
   他的投机使他陷于赤贫。
2. They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom.
   他们朝着这个标准而努力，而不是瘟疫，赤贫和不公正的奴隶制度。

经典引文

• This coin..will reduce the kingdom to beggary.

  出自： Swift

近反义词

【近义词】

• poverty 贫困
• necessity 需要
• mendicancy 乞丐生活
• mendicity 乞丐生活
• begging 请求