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
- 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。 - All right. you'll have to declare yourself indigent.
那好,你必须申请破产。 - If the defendant cannot afford an attorney, and if the court declares the defendant to be indigent, the court will appoint an attorney for that person.
如果被告人无力聘请律师,同时如果法院认定其为贫困被告人,则法院将为此人指派一名律师。 - Such efforts resulted in African Free Schools," infant "schools for the two-and three-year-old children of the indigent, and other types of sponsorship.
由于这些努力,产生了非裔免费学校、供贫困家庭2-3岁儿童就读的“幼儿”学校、以及其他的资助类型。 - 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。 - With no religious tradition of charity, Japan has few soup kitchens or other places for the indigent.
日本没有宗教行善的传统,因此施粥站或其他收容贫无立锥之地者的地方少之又少。 - The living conditions of that indigent family can be best described as "filthy"-a stuffy squalid house and dilapidated-looking furniture.
那贫贱家庭的生活环境以「乱」形容也不为过&子通风不良又污秽、俱外表残破。 - So our life become indigent, for every facet is only a lay at most, while life is multifaceted, you must become more liquid, more capricious, easier to melt, and easier to assimilate;
因此,我们的生命变得贫乏,因为每一个方面最多也只是一个层面,而生命是多层面的,你必须变得更流动、更善变、更易融化、更易吸取; - For one poor man there are and hundred indigent.
穷人总有无数贫困潦倒之处。