indigence
indigence 英 ['ɪndɪdʒəns] 美 [ˈɪndɪdʒəns]
n. 穷困；贫乏；贫穷
名词复数:indigences
- Indigence is a synonym for extreme poverty. If you experience indigence, you have a critical need for food, money, and other resources.
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- n. 穷困；贫乏；贫穷
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1. Poverty, indigence, and orphaned were derogatory labels for anyone who did not have the means to take care of themselves.
贫穷，无知和孤儿这些充满贬斥的名号被扣在那些没有办法照顾自己的人头上。
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2. Beauty, youth, wisdom and wealth, ugliness, aging, stupidity and indigence, Li Shuan was once invincible in the realm of gods, but everything now melts into the air.
美容，青春，智慧和财富，丑陋，衰老，愚昧和贫穷，李书称是众神中钟领域中的神，但现在所有熔体到空气中。
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3. For one of the poets has said, 'Application to business is the root of prosperity, but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly towards the rock of indigence'.
有位诗人说道：心思用在生意上，乃是发财致富的根本； 凡是打听与此无关的问题的人，便是正在把愚蠢的船向贫穷的礁石撞去。
- indigence (n.) late 14c., from Old French indigence "indigence, need, privation" (13c.), from Latin indigentia "need, want; insatiable desire," from indigentem (nominative indigens) "in want of, needing," present participle of indigere "to need, stand in need of," from indu "in, within" (from PIE *endo-, extended form of root *en "in") + egere "be in need, want," from PIE *eg- "to lack" (source also of Old Norse ekla "want, lack," Old High German eccherode "thin, weak").
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