qióng

Translation

  • poor
  • destitute
  • to use up
  • to exhaust
  • thoroughly
  • extremely
  • (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

Synonyms

Examples

  • 他很
    He is poor.
  • 鼠囓狸。
    A cornered rat will bite a cat.
  • 她很,但却很快乐。
    She is poor, but happy.
  • 富人和人都怕死。
    The rich and the poor are afraid of death.
  • 那是, 她是个贫的舞者。
    That is, she is a poor dancer.
  • 这个家庭非常贫以至于无法偿还贷款。
    The family is too poor to pay back the debts.
  • 他虽然,但生活却过得很快乐。
    Even though he was poor, he was happy.
  • 玛丽不,相反,她相当富裕。
    Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.
  • 那位老者捐了一大笔钱去帮助人。
    The old man contributed a large sum of money to the poor.
  • 尽管美国是个发达国家,却还有些很贫的人。
    Even though America is a developed country, it still has some very poor people.
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