indigent
英 [ˈɪndɪdʒənt]
美 [ˈɪndɪdʒənt]
adj. 十分贫穷的
复数：indigents
BNC.36066 / COCA.15961
牛津词典
adj.
- 十分贫穷的
very poor
柯林斯词典
- 贫穷的;贫困的
Someone who isindigentis very poor.
英英释义
adj
- poor enough to need help from others
双语例句
- I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families.
我知道他在圣诞前夜把食品和欢乐赠予贫穷的人们； - For one poor man there are and hundred indigent.
穷人总有无数贫困潦倒之处。 - With no religious tradition of charity, Japan has few soup kitchens or other places for the indigent.
日本没有宗教行善的传统，因此施粥站或其他收容贫无立锥之地者的地方少之又少。 - We were not operating in the black before the storm because so many of our patients were indigent.
风暴来临前，我们的经营没有盈余，因为有太多贫困的患者。 - Glasgow and Edinburgh were inundated with indigent refugees.
格拉斯哥和爱丁堡被贫困的难民所淹没。 - Such efforts resulted in African Free Schools," infant "schools for the two-and three-year-old children of the indigent, and other types of sponsorship.
由于这些努力，产生了非裔免费学校、供贫困家庭2-3岁儿童就读的“幼儿”学校、以及其他的资助类型。 - As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
他的工厂成了一个中心，在厂址附近原有许多一贫如洗的人家，到后来，在那一带却出现了一个崭新的区域。他在那里开设了一所免费药房。 - If the defendant cannot afford an attorney, and if the court declares the defendant to be indigent, the court will appoint an attorney for that person.
如果被告人无力聘请律师，同时如果法院认定其为贫困被告人，则法院将为此人指派一名律师。 - The town government is responsible for assistance to indigent people.
镇政府负责给穷人提供帮助。 - There exist many problems in western rural education, such as its delay development, unreasonable structure, mistake direction and indigent research.
中国西部农村教育存在发展滞后、结构不当、经费紧缺、导向错位和研究贫乏等问题。