Penniless

(a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.

手打:丽塔

• The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Count Fosco, though not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Barely, said Gurth, though the sum demanded was more reasonable than he expected, and it will leave my master nigh penniless. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You can't help your pedigree, and I quite agree with you that I would have married Mr. Joe Sedley; for could a poor penniless girl do better? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I just rejoiced that good luck had come her way, and that she had not thrown herself away on a penniless sailor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Poor little penniless, I have got a little interest--and who knows, perhaps the mouse may be able to aid the lion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We should be just as penniless elsewhere as we are here, said Lydgate still more angrily. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Suppose he came back and claimed it, I would once more be penniless. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You, penniless! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was a penniless man, some accounts say he was a bankrupt, and his only way of securing a ship was to get someone to entrust him with a command. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am poor, I am penniless--should your irons wrench my limbs asunder, I could not gratify you! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Matters seemed tending worse and worse with him, and the situation of the Howe family in London, almost penniless, grew daily more and more precarious. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He pawned his patent and his last machine, and procured money to return to New York, where he arrived penniless in 1849. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Does it not strike you, Mr. Yorke, that for a mere penniless adventurer to aspire to a rich woman's hand is presumptuous--contemptible? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am worse than penniless, said he. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

校对:杜鲁门