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Перевод: penury
[существительное] нужда ; бедность ; крайняя бедность; недостаток ; отсутствие [существительное]
Тезаурус:
- That is why we prefer to meditate about Lord Spencer's death than worry about the election, when the nation will choose between a future of moderate prosperity and happiness, or one of bitterness and penury.
- The French government succeeded in carrying through their plans for three reasons - because the more centralised legal and planning structure made it less easy for pressure groups to hinder progress, because, to a large extent, the government's arguments - that it was a straight choice between nuclear power and penury - were both heard and largely accepted and, finally and possibly most important, direct and immediate financial benefits were offered.
- But to his unfortunate son and daughter (William Armstrong and Margo Gunn) he seems to "make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo" as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain.
- But United invested in a youth development policy as their near neighbours Dundee fell deeper into a mire of penury and poor performances.
- The show went into penury, I think.
- Abel managed to make 730, which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval, though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War.
- When God subjected poor Job to grief, pain and penury He did so unjustly.
- Here was the Cabinet Office's former chief scientist, now a vice-chancellor engaged in pulling Salford out of UGC-imposed penury, who chatted entertainingly about issues in the two domains.
- Staff at the brewery are bitter that a profitable business can be reduced to penury by the financial crisis in its parent group.
- An account of these travels will appear tame indeed unless one realises the extreme limitations imposed by shift work, penury and wartime restrictions.
- We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread.
- OST students don't wake up till they are half way through the second year," said Paul Davies with the weary air of a man staring post-graduation penury in the face.
- From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
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