indigent

• adj. 贫困的；贫穷的（副词indigently）

中文词源

indi-,在内，在里，来自in-的扩大形式，-ig,缺乏，需要，来自拉丁语egere,需要的，来自PIE*angh,紧的，紧缩的，词源同anguish,anxious.引申词义贫穷的。

英文词源

indigent (adj.)

c. 1400, from Old French indigent, from Latin indigentem (see indigence). As a noun, "poor person," from early 15c.

双语例句

1. The town government is responsible for assistance to indigent people.

镇政府负责给穷人提供帮助.

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2. With the increasing of Substance, the spiritual resource 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.

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3. His single - mindedness was forged in indigent childhood.

童年的贫苦生活养成了李明博坚定的性格.

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4. Most individual indigent people facing charges used to defense attorneys from state - founded state - funded public defender offices.

大部分面临指控的贫困人群都请由国家资助的公立辩护律师事务所的辩护律师.

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5. After all, it is not asthe perpetrators of these shenanigans were indigent, let alone indentured slaves.

毕竟, 这些诡计的作恶者并不贫困, 更不是被契约约束的奴隶.

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