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
- 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。 - She won a stipend to live in Tijuana, Mexico, for a summer and work with indigent children there.
她拿到津贴，在墨西哥的提华纳住了一个夏天，和当地穷困的孩子一起工作。 - 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。 - A responsible government would implement judicious austerity, firing the party hacks who were hired in the go-go years, cutting wages and pensions and restructuring itself to collect taxes and provide useful services, even while retaining transfers to the indigent and elderly.
一个负责任的政府会实施明智的紧缩措施，开除歌舞升平时期上台的政客，削减工资和养老金，调整自身，征收税收并提供有用的服务，同时保持向穷人和老人进行转移支付。 - And he argues that indigent citizens, who are unable to provide for themselves, should not be forced to rely simply upon the private charity of individuals but should be maintained at public expense.
对于那些因贫困而无法养活自己的人，他却认为不能让他们，完全依靠私人的慈善救济过活，而应当用国家公共支出，建立相应的保障来维持他们的生活。 - With the increasing of Substance, the spiritual resource become indigent.
现代社会，随着物质财富的增加，换来的却是精神资源的贫乏。 - 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。 - 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； - The major factors of the constrained theory controlling the masses are the followings: the expressions of theoretical research and public education are obscure and indigent;
制约理论掌握群众的主要因素是：理论研究和宣传教育的语言表达流于晦涩和贫乏； - 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。