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
- 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。 - We were not operating in the black before the storm because so many of our patients were indigent.
风暴来临前，我们的经营没有盈余，因为有太多贫困的患者。 - For one poor man there are and hundred indigent.
穷人总有无数贫困潦倒之处。 - 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； - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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； - 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。 - 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。