Beggary

(noun.) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).

(noun.) the state of being a beggar or mendicant; 'they were reduced to mendicancy'.

手打:弗拉德

• And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A small point of doctrine might mean affluence or beggary to a man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I answered, that his excellency's prudence, quality, and fortune, had exempted him from those defects, which folly and beggary had produced in others. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Families, bred in opulence and luxury, were reduced to beggary. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What is an immense fortune for a private gentleman is beggary for a prince. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He menaced rebellion in the name of his counthry, vented bitter hatred against English rule; they spoke of rags, beggary, and pestilence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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