POVERTY

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Traducere în limba română

poverty substantiv

sărăcie, lipsă; mizerie; penurie;

(prov.) poverty is no vice sărăcia nu-i ruşine;

poverty of ideas sărăcie/ lipsă de idei.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There's one sort of poverty that I particularly like to help.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I have been always used to a very small income, and could struggle with any poverty for him; but I love him too well to be the selfish means of robbing him, perhaps, of all that his mother might give him if he married to please her.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Robert Leaven resumed—Missis had been out of health herself for some time: she had got very stout, but was not strong with it; and the loss of money and fear of poverty were quite breaking her down.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You needn't go and tell them all our little shifts, and expose our poverty in that perfectly unnecessary way.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

His estate had been rated by Sir John at about six or seven hundred a year; but he lived at an expense to which that income could hardly be equal, and he had himself often complained of his poverty.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She is very proud of him, just as he is, and said yesterday that she thought poverty was a beautiful thing.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

They had a long talk that night, and Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seemed to have made a man of him, given him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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