beggary

They have wrecked the Greek economy and reduced its people to beggary.
Ces politiques ont coulé l’économie de la Grèce et réduit son peuple à la mendicité.
If they are caressed on the neck or massaged on their back legs, they stand up majestically for unforgettable souvenir photos; and, watchful to baskets, they have become clever in beggary.
Si on les caresse sur le cou ou sur les pattes postérieures, elles se dressent majestueuses, pour d’inoubliables photos souvenir ; et attentives au panier de chacun, elles sont passées maîtresses dans l’art de quémander.
If they can take advantage of those who are poorer and less shrewd than they, and thus manage to increase their riches, they will not hesitate a moment to oppress them, and even see them brought to beggary.
S’ils peuvent tirer avantage de la pauvreté des autres et de leur manque de sagacité, ils en profitent pour augmenter leurs richesses. Ils n’hésitent pas à écraser quelqu’un et même à le réduire à la mendicité.
But I cannot put my name to beggary and flattery.
Mais je n'implorerai pas leur pitié.
Now, however, these luckless descendants of a fallen house, shorn of all power, and some of them reduced even to beggary, proclaim, in their distress, the consequences of the abominations which their progenitors have perpetrated.
Maintenant cependant, ces malheureux descendants d'une maison déchue, privés de tout pouvoir, réduits pour certain à la mendicité, montrent clairement dans leur détresse les conséquences qu'ont eues les abominations perpétrées par leurs aïeux.
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