Beggarly

(adj.) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt .

(adj.) marked by poverty befitting a beggar; 'a beggarly existence in the slums'; 'a mean hut' .

整理:马库斯

• Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We can only offer you a beggarly five hundred to start with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• An abbot and a dozen beggarly friars is all we have. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place, is at this day as beggarly a country as it was before the discovery of America. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I am a plain British merchant I am, and could buy the beggarly hounds over and over. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• In every country where they take place, the tenants are poor and beggarly, pretty much according to the degree in which they take place. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I cannot tell; Aunt Reed says if I have any, they must be a beggarly set: I should not like to go a begging. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

整理:米切尔