Примеры использования: penury
- все
- нищета
- бедность
- нужда
- прочие переводы
He must resign himself to penury; and it was worth while if he produced work which was immortal; but he had a terrible fear that he would never be more than second-rate.
Он должен обречь себя на нищету; игра стоит свеч, если он создаст бессмертные произведения; но его мучил страх, что он всю жизнь останется посредственностью.
With you, it is work AND penury.
I could not see her brought to penury in her old age.
Now, at the age of 69, Mr. Brill is in penury.
Maugham's days of relative penury were over for ever.
Three years there living, as he says, in utter penury.
For many, even having a job is no insurance against penury.
His sons have no interest in such a life of penury and patience.
The thought of penury did not distress hun very much.
And penury clouds judgment.
A man might think it is work or penury.
A life of penury, from which you yourself have been saved.
Or you can remain united in relative penury.
He will pay and she will condemn them both to a life of penury.
But she embraced her penury as a chance to reinvent her career.
If they relocated to the Cayman Islands, we'd all be living in penury.