penniless

The legal dispute left them penniless.

这法律纠纷使他们贫如洗。

He found himself penniless in a strange city.

他发现自己在个陌生的城市而且身无分。

Jobless and penniless, he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.

他既无工作又无钱, 只好在野外露宿数月。

He lived well, helping the poor, and all other people; he died penniless and unknown.

他生前讲道德, 总是帮助穷人以及所有的人; 后来却不名, 默默无闻地死了。

He died penniless in Paris.

他死在巴， 不名。

In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress .

在当时的小说里，这难题常常由最后页的重大发现得以圆满地解决：原先不名的女主人摇身变，成了巨额财富的继承人。