1.Their status somewhat resembles that of the middle peasants, they all suffer under the oppression of imperialism, feudalism and the big bourgeoisie, and they are being driven ever nearer to bankruptcy or destitution.
所有这些小资产阶级，和农民阶级中的中农的地位有某些相像，都受帝国主义、封建主义和大资产阶级的压迫，日益走向破产和没落的境地。
2.The heart of the whole world is wrung by the frightful tragedy of fire, massacre, and destitution in the Near East, where hundreds of thousands of helpless refugees, many of them are widows and orphans, are without food, clothing or shelter.
全世界的人都因近东的烽火、屠杀和穷困的可怕灾难而心痛如绞〔极为难过〕，在那里无数的无助难民，其中有许多是寡妇孤儿，无食、无衣或没有住所。
3.In some regions the types of mental and physical destitution were without parallel.
在有些地区里，精神上和物质上的贫乏的情况是无法比拟的。
4.she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter- N. Hawthorne.
在一封感人至深的信中她向他表述了她的穷困情形-N.华索恩。
5.Many people would prefer more equality to less, but few would prefer a world of uniform poverty to one of unequal wealth, provided the latter brought a reduction in destitution in its train.
许多人会希望平等多些，而不是少些，但倘若一个财富不均的世界能导致贫困有所减少，那么几乎所有人都会倾向于这样一个世界，而不是一个清一色贫困的世界。
6.The elimination of destitution, the millennial curse of humanity, is in sight, provided we find a way to spread the benefits of market-led development elsewhere - to sub-Saharan Africa, above all.
倘若我们找到一种方式，将市场引领的发展带来的利益传播到其他地区（首先传播到撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲地区），那就有望消灭贫困这个人类千年的祸根。
7.Certainly, the destitution, inability to afford better meal, as well as the young and sensitive self-respect had made them to avoid public notice while taking away their two unseemly black steamed buns, so as to shun a lot of unspoken disdain.
是的，正是因为贫穷，因为吃不起好饭，因为年轻而敏感的自尊心，才使他们躲避公众的目光来悄然地取走自己那两个不体面的黑家伙，以免遭受许多无言的耻笑！
8.To make up their deficit they cultivate side crops, catch fish or shrimps, raise poultry or pigs, or sell part of their labour power, and thus eke out a living, hoping in the midst of hardship and destitution to tide over the year.
不足部分，可以种杂粮、捞鱼虾、饲鸡豕，或出卖一部分劳动力，勉强维持生活，于艰难竭蹶之中，存聊以卒岁之想。
9.Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
拮据极度缺乏或贫穷；贫困
10.Telecoms were vital both for aid-workers—to co-ordinate helicopter flights and get them to areas of distress—and for the victims, whose hopes of avoiding destitution often depended on finding relatives in safer places.
无论是对救援人员，还是对受难者而言，电子通讯都极为重要：对于前者，电子通讯可用来协调直升机，并将援助人员带到受灾现场；对于后者来说，能否免于贫困之灾常常取决于他们能否找到其身处安全地区的亲戚。
