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词汇 destitute
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destitute

adjective
/ˈdestɪtjuːt/
/ˈdestɪtuːt/
  1. without money, food and the other things necessary for life贫困的;贫穷的;赤贫的
    • When he died, his family was left completely destitute.他死时家里一贫如洗。
    • The war left her completely destitute.战争使她一贫如洗。
  2. the destitute
    noun [plural] people who are destitute穷人;贫民
    More Like This Plural adjectival nounsPlural adjectival nouns
    • the blind
    • the deaf
    • the destitute
    • the dead
    • the dying
    • the elderly
    • the faithful
    • the homeless
    • the injured
    • the insane
    • the jobless
    • the middle aged
    • the old
    • the poor
    • the rich
    • the sick
    • the squeamish
    • the wealthy
    • the wicked
    • the wounded
    • the young
  3. destitute of something (formal) not having something缺乏;没有;毫无
    • They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.他们似乎一点人情味都没有。
    • a man wholly destitute of compassion一个完全没有同情心的人
    • a country almost destitute of timber一个几乎没有木材的国家
  4. 词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘deserted, abandoned, empty’): from Latin destitutus, past participle of destituere ‘forsake’, from de- ‘away from’ + statuere ‘to place’.
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