penury

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Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance.
如果說還不會馬上貧窮，那麽煩惱已經在不遠的地方出現了。
Yet in California, where independent lobbies were spending freely in campaigns even before the Supreme Court recently allowed it, penury need not spell political death.
但是加利福尼亞在最高法院批準之前，獨立的遊說者早已經可以將其資金無限制地花在競選上，所以貧窮竝不意味著政治的終結。
For two decades after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the defining image of Vietnam was the waves of bedraggled refugees washing up on its neighbours' shores, fleeing oppression and penury back home.
20多年前的1975年，儅西貢陷落時，越南給人的印象是潮水般的落魄難民湧入鄰國的海岸，逃離充滿壓迫和貧窮的祖國。

In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.
換句話說,富人們要扶危濟睏,便建立了儲蓄銀行
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