1.Luxury and penury have always coexisted there in uneasy tension.

奢华和贫困两种现象一直以来都并存于这个城市，其紧张关系也令。

2.His is a world of violence, random death, corruption, hunger and penury.

他世界充斥着暴力、随机死亡、腐败、饥饿和贫穷。

3.Had he stopped there, he would have faced a life on the edge of penury.

如果他就停在那里，他将会面临一生穷困潦倒。

4.Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do.

她因为穷了，沦落到了择手段，吝啬和干黑干活儿，所以觉得耻辱呀！

5.'Everything except this penury, ' replied Louis, unmoved.

“一切，除了这个贫穷， ” 路易斯为所动地回答。机翻

6.Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes.

思嘉想到过去在塔拉挨饿苦日子，又想到久前拮据生活，吃起这些丰盛菜肴来，觉得老也吃够。

7.I should have wrecked and wasted in one way or another, either by penury or by luxury.

我应该以这样或那样式破坏和浪费， 无论是因为贫穷还是奢侈。机翻

8.By supplementing public coverage with private policies, the government hopes that people may just manage to escape penury in their old age.

通过私保险和公共计划叠加法，中国政府希望们到年老后可以脱贫。

9.A depression came, and people learned that being left to your own devices could mean penury and shame.

抑郁症来了，们了解到，任其自生自灭可能意味着贫穷和羞耻。机翻

10.I was spared all chill, all stint; I was not suffered to fear penury; I was not tried with suspense.

我幸免于难，幸免于难;我没有因为害怕贫穷而受苦;我没有受到悬念审判。机翻

11.Meanwhile, the former is a high-wire act in which we fantasise generating an income from what we deeply love and yet we constantly fear penury and humiliation.

同时，前者难度则要大得多，我们渴望能够从我们热爱事物中获得收入，但我们又断地害怕贫穷和羞辱。

12.The government doesn't want to help all its citizens get out of penury, help them live a dignified life, dignified, because the salaries, salaries must be salaries.

政府并想帮助所有民众摆脱贫困，或是帮他们过上有尊严生活，们薪资必须是实实在在薪资。

13.They would find that they had, somehow, squandered eighty or ninety dollars, how, they never knew; they customarily attributed it to the general penury of the " friends" who had accompanied them.

他们会发现，知何故，他们已经浪费了八十或九十美元，具体是怎么浪费，他们从来知道；他们通常将其归因于陪伴他们" 朋友" 普遍贫困。机翻

14.The day has come at last when my ill-starred life has to reveal its destitution in a long-drawn series of exposures. This penury, all unexpected, has taken its seat in the heart where plenitude seemed to reign.

终于有一天，我那幸生活得在一系列冗长曝光中暴露出它贫困。出乎意料是，这种匮乏已经在充实似乎占统治地位心中占据了一席之地。机翻