indigent
英 [ˈɪndɪdʒənt]
美 [ˈɪndɪdʒənt]
adj. 十分贫穷的
复数:indigents
BNC.36066 / COCA.15961
牛津词典
adj.
- 十分贫穷的
very poor
柯林斯词典
- 贫穷的;贫困的
Someone who isindigentis very poor.
英英释义
adj
- poor enough to need help from others
双语例句
- Times had changed, money was scarce, but nothing had altered the rule of Southern life that families always made room gladly for indigent or unmarried female relatives.
时代变了,钱虽不多,可是什么也改变不了南方的老规矩:对于亲属中生活无着落或未婚的女子,家家都是热烈欢迎的。 - IBJ's programming focuses specifically on strengthening the capacity of China's rapidly expanding indigent criminal defense system as well as the quality of the criminal defense bar.
国际司法桥梁项目尤其注重强化中国迅速发展的贫困人群刑事辩护制度的效率以及提高刑事辩护的质量。 - Indigent construction fund and unitary financial channel seriously restrict the development of Chongqing expressway.
建设资金匮乏、融资方式单一,严重制约了重庆高速公路的发展。 - For one poor man there are and hundred indigent.
穷人总有无数贫困潦倒之处。 - We were not operating in the black before the storm because so many of our patients were indigent.
风暴来临前,我们的经营没有盈余,因为有太多贫困的患者。 - Immigration policy has large implications for us debt and the sustainability of entitlements for the indigent population, yet the link seldom receives serious attention.
移民政策对美国债务与穷人福利的可持续性有着巨大影响,但这种关联却很少受到重视。 - I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families.
我知道他在圣诞前夜把食品和欢乐赠予贫穷的人们; - As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
他的工厂成了一个中心,在厂址附近原有许多一贫如洗的人家,到后来,在那一带却出现了一个崭新的区域。他在那里开设了一所免费药房。 - That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent is too often either neglected or oppressed.
这样做有利于穷人不然穷人往往要么被忽视或受压迫。 - Glasgow and Edinburgh were inundated with indigent refugees.
格拉斯哥和爱丁堡被贫困的难民所淹没。