Luxury and penury have always coexisted there in uneasy tension.

奢华和贫困两种现象一直来都并存于这个城市，其紧张关系也令不安。

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

思嘉想到去在塔拉挨饿的苦日子，又想到不久前拮据的生活，吃起这些丰盛的菜肴来，觉得老也吃不够。

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，前者的难度则要大得多，我们渴望能够从我们热爱的事物中获得收入，但我们又不断地害怕贫穷和羞辱。

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

如果他就停在那里，他将会面临一生的穷困潦倒。

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

他的世界充斥着暴力、随机死亡、腐败、饥饿和贫穷。

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

通私保险和公共计划叠加的方法，中国政府希望们到年老后可脱贫。

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

她因为穷了，沦落到了不择手段，吝啬和干黑干的活，所觉得耻辱呀！

Having blown his lottery winnings on plastic kazoos, Mark was reduced to penury.

马克把彩票 winnings 花光在塑料口琴上，结果沦为了穷光蛋。

Laura Tunbridge professor of music at Oxford and author of a new biography Beethoven a life in nine pieces underlines her subjects role as one of the early freelancers, a hard-nosed jobbing professional Learning between court and market prosperity and penury.

劳拉·坦布里奇， 牛津大的音乐教授及新传记《贝多芬：九个片段的生》的作者， 强调了她笔下物作为早期自由职业者之一的角色，一个务实的职业士， 在宫廷与市场之间游走， 经历着繁荣与贫困。

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，我那不幸的生活不得不在一系列冗长的曝光中暴露出它的贫困。出乎意料的是，这种匮乏已经在充实似乎占统治地位的心中占据了一席之地。

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

Steinbeck's themes include the hardship of penury, our desperate wish for comfort in loneliness, and the way aggressive self-interest can flourish in the weak as well as the strong.

斯坦贝克的主题包括贫困的艰辛、我们在孤独中对慰藉的绝望渴望，及激进的自我利益如何在弱者和强者中滋生繁荣。

Indeed, in modern America, it is Evangelical megachurches, which offer few handouts but preach that religion is the route out of penury, that are growing fastest.

事实上， 在现代美国， 正是那些福音派大型教堂在迅速发展，它们虽提供极少物质援助， 却宣扬宗教是摆脱贫困的途径。

He sets out to pin down the secrets that lead these modern pharaohs to succeed While he flounders in relative penury The title.

他试图找出这些现代法老成功背后的秘密，而他自己却在相对的贫困中挣扎。书名。

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

我应该这样或那样的方式破坏和浪费， 无论是因为贫穷还是奢侈。

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;我没有受到悬念的审判。

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。

And finally, when you've got a minuscule amount of money, penury is the word for you.

当你手头只有微不足道的一点钱时，那就是“贫困”了。