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，其紧张关系也令人不安。

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。

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。

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，吝啬和干黑人干的活儿，所以觉得耻辱呀！

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

“一切，除了这个贫穷， ” 路易斯不为所动地回答。

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。

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的方式破坏和浪费， 无论是因为贫穷还是奢侈。

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

通过私人保险和公共计划叠加的方法，中国政府希望人们到年老后可以脱贫。

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。

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.

政府并不想帮助所有民众摆脱贫困，或是帮他们过上有尊严的生活，人们的薪资必须是实实在在的薪资。