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Chinese dictionary
- 1
adj.poor; with little or no money
他家很穷。
His family is very poor.
他很穷，但很傲气。
He was poor but proud.
我们学校请不起更好的老师是因为这里的人穷。
The reason our schools cannot afford better teachers is because people here are poor.
antonym
- 2
v.limit; end
无穷无尽
endless
层出不穷
emerge in an endless stream
穷其究竟
get to the bottom of something
- 3
adv.thoroughly
穷究
make a thorough inquiry
穷追猛打
run down enemy troops and attack fiercely
穷竭检查
have an exhaustive check-up
- 4
adv.extremely; abominably
穷奢极欲
extremely extravagant and luxurious
穷侈
extremely extravagant
穷凶极恶
extremely vicious
- 5
v.exhaust; use up
穷兵黩武
use all one's armed might to wage war
Words and phrases with 穷
- 穷交[word]friend in adversity
- 穷骨头[word]poor wretch
- 穷醋大[word]same as 穷措大
- 穷秀才[word]impoverished intellectual
- 穷苦[word]destitute
- 穷途落魄[word]no ways and means for living
- 穷竭[word]use up
- 穷期[word]termination
- 穷相[word]appearance or manner suggestive of abject poverty
- 穷极无聊[idiom]be utterly bored; absolutely senseless
- 穷奢极欲[idiom]wanton extravagance
- 穷困潦倒[idiom]be poor and wretched
- 穷乡僻壤[idiom]remote hinterland
- 穷则思变[idiom]Poverty gives rise to a desire for change.
- 穷追猛打[idiom]hotly pursue and fiercely attack
- 穷途末路[idiom]be in an impasse
- 穷凶极恶[idiom]extremely ferocious/villainous and wicked
- 穷山恶水[idiom]barren mountains and unruly rivers