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Destitute means extremely poor - so poor that a person has no money, no home, and not even enough food or basic things to live on. It's a stronger, more serious word than just 'poor,' and it's often used to talk about people in a crisis, like after losing a job, a war, or a disaster.
赤貧的、一無所有的
同家族的字
- destitutionthe noun form, meaning the state of being destitute
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
destituteadj詞源 1/ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
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Lacking something; devoid.
- Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatly destitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.
- In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
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Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
- Near-synonym: penniless
- ‘Do you know how pinched and destitute I am?’ she retorted. ‘I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me.[…]’ In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.
destituteverb詞源 2/ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
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To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。