poverty line

poverty line

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• n.贫困线（政府规定维持最低生活水平所需的收入标准）
• 网络贫穷线；台湾贫穷线；贫穷线测量

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Nearly fifty percent of the children here live below the poverty line without the services and conveniences that we all take for granted.

这儿有一半的孩子生活在贫困线下，没有我们觉得理所应当的服务和便利。

one person in two in what had been a broadly middle-class society found themselves below the poverty line.

以前一半的人跻身中产之列，却发现自己一夜间身处贫困线之下。

This rises to nearly three-quarters of those parents below the poverty line, the online poll of 854 parents for Save the Children indicated.

这个由854名父母参与的名为“救救孩子”的网上调查显示，对于在贫困线以下的父母而言这个比例上升到了四分之三。

Almost a fifth of New Orleans households now live below the federal poverty line ($22, 000 a year for a family of four).

现在，将近五分之一的新奥尔良家庭生活在国家贫困线以下（一个四口之家年收入为22,000美元）。

In 1992, it accounted for 33% of the poverty line for able-bodied persons and by 1995 it had decreased to 14% of that level.

1992年，它对贫困线百分之33的健全人负责，1995年则下降到了百分之14。

More than 10 million people are still living below poverty line, a population equal to that of Belgium.

中国绝对贫困人口还有1000多万，相当于一个比利时。

In the early years of the reform, the minimum wage fell significantly below the poverty line.

在早期的改革中，最低工资跌到了贫困线以下。

For a large part I lived on relatively little, for quite a few years, even in my thirties, below the poverty line.

在大部分的时间里，我生活得相对来说很简单，甚至在三十多岁的那几年，我生活在贫困线以下。

China is raising its rural poverty line by more than 90% in what it says is an attempt to increase aid to its low-income population.

中国将农村贫困线上调90%多，称这是为了增加对低收入人群的帮助。

And yet one hundred and fifty million Chinese live below the poverty line.

然而，仍有1.5亿中国人生活在贫困线以下。

And therein lies a lesson. Give or take a dime or two, it matters little where a poverty line is drawn.

并且此中有个教训，增加或减少一两角钱，对于划定贫困线影响甚小。

In many poor countries the cost of living was steeper than previously thought, which meant more people fell short of the poverty line.

在许多贫穷的国家，生活成本比先前想象的要多，这意味着更多的人将降到贫困线以下。

Three out of four of those below the poverty line work: half have full-time jobs, a quarter work part time.

在处于贫困线以下的人口中，有四分之三有工作：一半人有全职工作，四分之一有兼职工作。

The surge across the poverty line is a period of accelerating growth both for the new middle class and for the country it inhabits .

贫穷线的跨越潮是中产阶级和他们的国家加速增长的一个时期。

Officials say that UID cards will reduce overlapping documentation when processing voters' cards, ration cards and below-poverty-line cards.

官员们说，在处理选民证，配给证，贫困证时，身份证会帮助减少冗杂的文件。

Millions of people still lived below the poverty line, whose only hope of a better life was a rapid rate of economic expansion.

数以百万计的人群仍然生活在贫困线以下，他们过上更好生活的唯一希望就在于快速的经济扩张。

As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too.

由于国内一般生活水平上升，贫困线同样在上升。

Just over half of the population lives on less than 120% of this meagre poverty line.

超过一半的人口生活在这条本来钱就很少的贫困线的120%以下。

What tipped them from middle-class lifestyles to incomes just above the poverty line was likely to have been one or all of three factors.

而她们之所以从中产阶级生活沦落到收入仅高于贫困线的境地，可能是出于三个因素（或其中之一）。

The traditional Orshansky poverty line assumes that families need a set amount of money to meet their material needs.

传统的奥山斯基贫困线标准假定一个家庭只需相应数量的金钱就能满足基本物质需求。

EXAMPLE: The remote mountain town has very few industries and nearly a third of its population lives below the poverty line.

这个偏远山城没有什么产业，将近三分之一的人生活在贫困线以下。

One in three Hungarians lives on or below the poverty line; far more among the Roma (Gypsy) minority.

三分之一的匈牙利人生活在贫困线附近或之下；许多是罗马（吉普赛）少数民族。

Similarly, more than 70% of Americans under the official poverty line own at least one car.

美国官方贫困线以下的人，有70%多拥有至少一辆车。

In the United States, the poverty line is $29. 58 a day for a single adult under the age of 65.

美国的贫困人口标准是一个65岁以下，日收入少于29.58美元的成年人。

and yet 70% of the population lives under the poverty line.

但70%的人口却生活于贫困线以下

For starters, the original poverty line is pegged to only one thing: food costs as a share of annual income.

对于基准线来说，最初的贫困线仅仅与一项指标相挂钩：食物支出占年收入的比重。

E700 is equal to the poverty line and is low enough not to destroy jobs (though the amount is planned to increase).

700镑相当于一个贫困线，这已经足够低了，但还不至于丢掉工作（虽然工资计划要增长）。

A greater percentage of Egypt's population lives below the poverty line, compared to Tunisia, making Egyptians arguably more desperate.

埃及有很大一部分人口都生活在贫困线以下，和突尼斯相比，这当然会让埃及人更容易铤而走险。

Millions will be lifted out of poverty, halving the number of people below the $1-a-day poverty line.

数以百万计的人将摆脱贫困，使生活在每日1美元贫困线下的人数减半。

This essay also holds that the current international poverty line standard is too high for China's present conditions.

现行的各种国际贫困线标准较高，因而不符合中国实际情况。

The gaps in health outcomes, that so often divide along the poverty line, are readily apparent here.

卫生结果的差距往往以贫困线为分界，在此显而易见。

The idea of a poverty line has stayed with us, but the candidates have multiplied.

“贫困线”这个概念一直留存了下来，但是衍生出的标准却是五花八门。

At current growth rates, fewer than 25 million out of a total of about 2 billion East Asians will be living below the poverty line by 2020.

以目前的增长速度，到2020年约20亿东亚人里将会有不到2500万人生活在贫困线下。

The scheme aims to protect households living below the poverty line from liabilities arising from hospitalization.

该方案的目的是要保护生活在贫穷线之下的家庭避免因住院造成负债。

The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living.

贫穷线是指维持一般生活水准所需的最低收入。收入低于这个标准的人被认为是贫困的。

Reducing PPP consumption estimates drops large numbers of additional households below the poverty line.

降低购买力平价消费估算值，会大大增加生活在贫困线以下的人口数量。

Average Chinese income rises as the country's economy grows, voices to revise the poverty line become much louder.

随着我国经济不断增长，人均收入水平逐年提高，要求调整贫困线的声音越来越多。

In the late 1990s, dips in production and prices left the island state heavily reliant on foreign aid and farmers on the poverty line.

九十年代后期，其产量和价格的下降让圣美越发依赖外国，而当地农民也因此身处贫困的边缘。

Slight changes in the definition of poverty line can change the number of poor in India by tens of millions.

贫困线的很小的调整可以引起印度贫困人口数量的数以百万计的变化。

Nearly 10 million people fell below the poverty line at the start of the last decade.

2000年后的最初几年又有将近1000万郊区民众跌入贫困线以下。