poverty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 贫困, 贫穷，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The uncontrol-lable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and depriva-tion had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
-- Here again: Mr. Lorry's inquiries into Miss Pross's per-sonal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction.
-- Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have re-pented them in poverty and obscurity often before.
-- From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their chil-dren, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.
-- From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he always felt the injustice of his own abundance in comparison with the poverty of the peasants, and now he determined that so as to feel quite in the right, though he had worked hard and lived by no means luxuriously before, he would now work still harder, and would allow himself even less luxury.
-- But in what way this trouble of poverty and ignorance is to be cured by schools is as incomprehensible as how the hen-roost affects the screaming.
-- He maintained that the poverty of Russia arises not merely from the anomalous distribution of landed property and misdirected reforms, but that what had contributed of late years to this result was the civilization from without abnormally grafted upon Russia, especially facilities of communication, as railways, leading to centralization in towns, the development of luxury, and the consequent development of manufactures, credit and its accompaniment of speculation--all to the detriment of agriculture.
-- "Yes, but you mustn't forget that you and I.... And besides that," added Anna, in spite of the wealth of her arguments and the poverty of Dolly's objections, seeming still to admit that it was not right, "don't forget the chief point, that I am not now in the same position as you.
-- Levin thought that the clearness of Katavasov's conception of life was due to the poverty of his nature; Katavasov thought that the disconnectedness of Levin's ideas was due to his lack of intellectual discipline; but Levin enjoyed Katavasov's clearness, and Katavasov enjoyed the abundance of Levin's untrained ideas, and they liked to meet and to discuss.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of his poverty he had rarely thought, but now, in contrast to Clif's rich ease, his own shabby clothes and his pinched room seemed shameful.
-- But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.
-- When Gottlieb sought to make it clear that he was a poor man, the boy answered that out of his poverty he was always sneakingly spending money on his researches--he had no right to do that and shame his son--let the confounded University provide him with material!
-- Could you endure the poverty if I went away--to teach chemistry in a high school!"
-- Martin had heard about the superiority of poverty to luxury, but after the lunch-wagons of Mohalis, after twelve years of helping Leora check the laundry and worry about the price of steak, after a life of waiting in the slush for trolleys, it was not at all dismaying to have a valet who produced shirts automatically; not at all degrading to come to meals which were always interesting, and, in the discretion of his car, to lean an aching head against softness and think how clever he was.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In poverty you may still re-tain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary never no one.
-- And she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort, I don't feel equal to describing it even.
-- A family who had come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling their household goods and clothes, all women's things.
-- 'Poverty is not a vice, my friend, but we know you go off like powder, you can't bear a slight, I daresay you took of-fence at something and went too far yourself,' continued Nikodim Fomitch, turning affably to Raskolnikov.
-- Razumihin soon de-tected signs of extreme poverty in their belongings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 467As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but Iseemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep.
-- The rest was leftcontingent on the value of my professional exertions; in other andmore expressive words, on the baseness of my nature, the cupidityof my motives, the poverty of my family, the general moral (orrather immoral) resemblance between myself and- HEEP.
-- I trustthat the labour and hazard of an investigation- of which thesmallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressureof arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, atrise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the 698watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon-combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, whencompleted, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a fewdrops of sweet water on my funereal pyre.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public!A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid!the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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