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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Less than you'd think," said Gerald, revealing a strange poverty in his look at the other man.
-- Nay, he had felt inferior to them, as if they through poverty and labour were nearer to God than he.
-- It was a sentimental delight to reconstruct the world of Goethe at Weimar, or of Schiller and poverty and faithful love, or to see again Jean Jacques in his quakings, or Voltaire at Ferney, or Frederick the Great reading his own poetry.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Though the position of all of us at that time was not par-ticularly brilliant, and the poverty was dreadful all round, yet the etiquette at court was strictly preserved, and the more strictly in proportion to the growth of the forebod-ings of disaster.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though more scantily attired than she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness, and betrayed no marks of poverty or neglect.
-- I have borne great poverty myself, and would spare her the sufferings that poverty carries with it.
-- The fear of her coming to poverty has perhaps been bred in me by that.
-- Again this quarter passed, they came upon a straggling neighbourhood, where the mean houses parcelled off in rooms, and windows patched with rags and paper, told of the populous poverty that sheltered there.
-- The shops sold goods that only poverty could buy, and sellers and buyers were pinched and griped alike.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Prison and poverty are our lot.
-- They all spoke of their poverty and implored his help.
-- These money gifts were called forth by the fact that here, for the first time, he learned to what poverty the peasants had been reduced and though he knew that it was unwise, he could not help distributing such money as he had, which was considerable.
-- The village scenes came to his mind--the women, children and old men, whose poverty and exhaustion he had noticed as if for the first time, especially that oldish child which twisted its little calfless legs--and he involuntarily compared them with the city folks.
-- In a sympathetic conversation about the injustice of the strong, the poverty of the people, the awful condition of the prisoners, she succeeded in rousing in him the least expected feeling of physical attraction, and under the din of conversation their eyes plainly queried, "Can you love me?"
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