Bankrupt

(noun.) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts.

(verb.) reduce to bankruptcy; 'My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!'; 'The slump in the financial markets smashed him'.

(adj.) financially ruined; 'a bankrupt company'; 'the company went belly-up' .

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• Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If none, we are bankrupt here, and must go abroad, I suppose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If, when the bill becomes due, the acceptor does not pay it as soon as it is presented, he becomes from that moment a bankrupt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What a bankrupt he'd make, Sir,' observed Mr. Lowten, who was standing near. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If I did as you wish me to do, I should be bankrupt in a month; and would my bankruptcy put bread into your hungry children's mouths? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But the inventor hung on to his faith in this machine, although no one appeared to buy it, and the expense he had gone to in making it had practically bankrupted him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This expenditure bankrupted them, as the machines were not at once remunerative, and parliament refused to grant them pecuniary assistance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know, Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Though all of them may be very likely to become bankrupts, it is a chance if they all become so in so short a time. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Oh, wery well, Sir,' replied Sam, 'we shan't be bankrupts, and we shan't make our fort'ns. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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