1.“I said to her, ‘The stereotypical Africa is disease, despair, destitution, deceit — why is that?’”
英：[ˌdestɪ'tju:ʃn]
美：[ˌdɛstɪˈtuʃən, -ˈtju-]
des·ti·tu·tion
de stih tu shn
词根：destitute
adj.destitute 穷困的；无的；缺乏的
n.destitute 赤贫者
vt.destitute 使穷困；夺去
noun
utter poverty, or the extreme want of the necessities of life.With no father and an invalid mother, the children lived in destitution.
a lack or deficiency of something.
shortage, deficiency, need, short of, drought
15世纪早期， destitucioun，“剥夺，失去，缺乏所需之物”，源自古法语 destitution，直接源自拉丁语 destitutionem（主格 destitutio），“放弃，离弃”，源自 destituere 的过去分词 destitutus，“放弃”，源自 de “离开”（见 de-) + statuere“放置，安置”，stare 的使役形式，意为“站立”，源自 PIE 词根 *sta- “站立，使坚定”。意思是“缺乏手段或资源，贫困”，始于1600年左右。
The first known use of destitution was in the 15th century
1.“I said to her, ‘The stereotypical Africa is disease, despair, destitution, deceit — why is that?’”
2.I simply have to utter destitution of the past.
我的过去单纯得一贫如洗。
3.She must either betray the code of silence that keeps her extended family firmly and proudly on the wrong side of the law, or else face destitution.
4.His next known movement was in 1786 when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution.
5.The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.
对于众多赤贫的人们,这几袋食物简直是杯水车薪。
6.At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated that his name was Jondrette.
这人家，乍一看。除了那种一贫如洗的窘相外，似乎也没有什么很特殊的地方，那个家长，在开始租用那间屋子时，自称姓容德雷特。
7.A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution.
8.“There is a sense of loss, of sudden exile, of something willfully denied,” Steinberg wrote, “sometimes a feeling that one’s accumulated culture or experience is hopelessly devalued, leaving one exposed to spiritual destitution.”
9.The viewer might see the fall from rural poverty to urban destitution as a tragedy, but the former sharecroppers are more interested in survival than sentimentality.
10.From hunger , cold, isolation, destitution.
向饥寒 、 孤独 、 遗弃、贫困收买.
11.Lowry's world was a week away from destitution.
12.This is both their destitution and their wealth.
这既是他们的窘困也是他们的财富所在。
13.Presumably, as well as having a stern word with the boy, the father blames Microsoft's somewhat laid back, password-free purchase process for his enormous bill and potential destitution.
14.Official figures indicate more than 90,000 children have travelled alone, fleeing war and destitution across Europe.
15.The Prenzlauer Berg district where her parents and their compatriots lived on the edge of destitution is now pricey, "like Park Slope, sidewalks filled with double-wide strollers," he says with sad resignation.
16.He reach the excess of destitution from which he never rose again.
他走到了贫困的极端,从此一蹶不振.
17.Such choices were not dramatic options between riches and destitution.
18."The appearance of destitution, degradation, and barbarism, among the chattering, and almost naked savages … was appalling," she wrote.
19.Whatever the bottomless wealth of the Saudi or Emirati royals, there’s the destitution of Yemen and the enduring misery of Syria’s refugees.
20.The last time the Giants scored more than three runs was April 23, nine games ago, outdoing even the offensive destitution to finish last season.
