penniless

中英例句：

1. Jobless and penniless, Tom had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.
   湯姆沒有工作，身無分文，不得不在野外露宿了幾個月。
2. At the age of thirteen, Tom was left penniless by the death of his father, so he had his own way to make.
   在13歲時湯姆的父親死了，沒留分文給他，所以，他得自食其力。
3. My firm in Hongkong went bankrupt and left me penniless, and I could only get home by working my ticket.
   我在香港開設的商行破產了，落得個身無分文，只得靠在船上做工抵償船費才回到家鄉。
4. Helen's mother disapproved of Tom and said that she had no wish to chuck her daughter away on such a penniless person.
   海倫的母親不贊成湯姆並且說她決不想把女兒嫁給一個像他這樣的窮光蛋。

英文解釋：

形容詞 penniless:

1. not having enough money to pay for necessities
   同義詞：hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched

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