4.A succession of bad harvests had reduced the small farmers to penury.
连年歉收使小农陷入了一贫如洗的困境。
5.Can a wretch who wanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene of sore affliction or pinching penury; can that man call England or any other kingdom his country?
一个到处流浪的可怜人，一个终日辛劳却还忍饥挨饿的人，一个总是生活在痛苦或赤贫如洗的境遇里的人，会把英国或其它王国称作自己的国家吗？
6.Mr Thomas was born in penury and grew up with bare feet and intestinal worms.
托马斯出身微寒，伴着光脚丫儿、肚里住着蛔虫的日子长大。
7.Peoples in Africa are living in penury.
非洲的人民过着贫穷的生活。
8.Laid-off workers fall into penury.
下岗职工陷入贫困。
9.He was cradled in the lap of penury .
他自幼生活在贫困的环境里。
10.Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.
受穷受苦使他未老先衰。
