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Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance.
如果说还不会马上贫穷，那么烦恼已经在不远的地方出现了。
Yet in California, where independent lobbies were spending freely in campaigns even before the Supreme Court recently allowed it, penury need not spell political death.
但是加利福尼亚在最高法院批准之前，独立的游说者早已经可以将其资金无限制地花在竞选上，所以贫穷并不意味着政治的终结。
For two decades after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the defining image of Vietnam was the waves of bedraggled refugees washing up on its neighbours' shores, fleeing oppression and penury back home.
20多年前的1975年，当西贡陷落时，越南给人的印象是潮水般的落魄难民涌入邻国的海岸，逃离充满压迫和贫穷的祖国。

In other words, wealthy people, in an effort to alleviate penury, would create a savings bank.
换句话说,富人们要扶危济困,便建立了储蓄银行
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