destitute

英語

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/
• (y音合併) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdɛstɪtuːt/

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• 斷字：des‧ti‧tute

詞源 1

源自中古英語 destitute、destitut，源自拉丁語 dēstitūtus。

形容詞

destitute (比較級 more destitute, 最高級 most destitute)

1. (後接介詞of) 缺少...的，沒有...的
   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie Chapter 9

     Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatly destitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.

   • 1611 King James Bible, Psalms 141:8

     In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

2. 一貧如洗的，身無分文的
   • May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul in The New York Times, The Forgotten Entertainer Rag

     In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49, destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.

   • 1918, Henry Leyford Gates translating Aurora Mardiganian, Ravished Armenia

     according to the most careful estimates, 3,950,000 destitute peoples, mostly women and children who had been driven many of them as far as one thousand miles from home, turn their pitiful faces toward America for help in the reconstructive period in which we are now living.

   • 1841, Charles Dickens、Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 45

     『Do you know how pinched and destitute I am?』 she retorted. 『I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me. […] 』

近義詞

• 參見Thesaurus:impoverished

詞源 2

源自中古英語 destituten，源自前文的形容詞。

動詞

destitute (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 destitutes, 現在分詞 destituting, 一般過去時及過去分詞 destituted)

1. (及物) 剝奪...的財產，資源等，使...一貧如洗

拉丁語

形容詞

dēstitūte

1. dēstitūtus 的呼格陽性單數