Poverty

(noun.) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.

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• Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Poverty is exactly what I have determined against. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That ravenous second hunger of poverty--the hunger for money--roused them into tumult and activity in a moment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You are sore about your poverty; you brood over that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He resumed-- And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• So dearly do I love the scene of my poverty and your kindness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A certain degree of poverty produces contempt; but a degree beyond causes compassion and good-will. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Alive in poverty and in hiding. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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