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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poverty certainly has not contracted her mind: I really believe, if she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it; and no-body is afraid of her: that is a great charm.'
-- In the present instance, it was sickness and poverty together which she came to visit; and after remaining there as long as she could give comfort or advice, she quitted the cottage with such an impression of 106 Emmathe scene as made her say to Harriet, as they walked away, 'These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as remarkable as it was characteristic that the one sentence he uttered was in thankfulness: "Thank God I am not married: what would she have done in the poverty now coming upon me!"
-- But limitation of the capacity is never recognized as a loss by the loser therefrom: in this attribute moral or 脙娄sthetic poverty contrasts plausibly with material, since those who suffer do not mind it, whilst those who mind it soon cease to suffer.
-- "I'll pay you well now, I'll settle a sum of money upon her, and I'll see that you don't suffer from poverty in the future.
-- Though the overshadowing trees and the approach of eventide enveloped them in gloom, Bathsheba could see plainly enough to discern the extreme poverty of the woman's garb, and the sadness of her face.
-- Once out of the farm, the approach of poverty would be sure.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- The subject between the two windows is the banquet given by Calypso to the son of Ulysses, displayed thereon for the admiration of the boarders, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by making fun of the dinners to which poverty condemns them.
-- In short, there is no illusory grace left to the poverty that reigns here; it is dire, parsimonious, concentrated, threadbare poverty; as yet it has not sunk into the mire, it is only splashed by it, and though not in rags as yet, its clothing is ready to drop to pieces.
-- He sat there with his thoughts for a while, Law on the one hand, and Poverty on the other, beholding a radiant vision of a woman rise above the dull, smouldering fire.
-- de Beauseant's counsels, the words uttered in anger by the forsaken lady, her petulant offer, came to his mind, and poverty was a ready expositor.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
-- Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her cloth-ing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.
-- Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protec-tion.
-- In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with plea-sure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
-- Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliv-erer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor 148 Frankensteinto good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would acceptnothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go forth into the world, there you will learn what poverty is.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all appeared with dejected looks, and in the meanest habit; most of them telling me, 'they died in poverty and disgrace, and the rest on a scaffold or a gibbet.'
-- I said, 'they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even general poverty is no lovely thing.
-- Poverty is ugly.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see.
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