poverty

poverty

美 [ˈpɑvərti] 　英 [ˈpɒvə(r)ti]

• n.贫困；贫穷；贫乏；短缺
• 网络缺少；缺乏；穷困

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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

像圣人一样培植贫困，如同香草之于花园！为获得新事物（物品）不要嫌麻烦，无论是朋友或衣衫。

To decide how much the Mapuches are owed and the best way to help them emerge from their poverty, Chile urgently needs a national debate.

智利现在急切需要一场全国性的辩论，来决定马普利人应该拥有多少土地以及帮助他们脱贫的最佳方法。

This progress has greatly improved the prospects for growth and for a substantial reduction in poverty over the next decade.

这些进步极大地改观了未来十年增长和大幅减贫的前景。

Thanks to four years of annual economic growth of over 8%, poverty and unemployment have halved since he took office in 2003 (see chart 2).

自从科奇勒在2003年当选为阿根廷的总统，他就让国家在四年内出现每年8%的经济增长，而且贫穷度与失业率也减少过半。

"She's a quiet one, " he thought; "she's grown up in poverty, and I am marrying for the sake of my motherless children. "

他已经折磨死两个老婆，正在物色第三个，于是就看中了她，说她“性格文静，生在贫苦人家，而我呢，之所以结婚，是为了失去母亲的孩子。”

She died in poverty in Paris after using what wealth and influence she had in saving the children of Loyalists from the wroth of Cornwall.

为了从盛怒的康华里候爵手中救出效忠派的后代，她耗尽了自己的财富和权势，最后贫困交加死在巴黎。

"I think dealing with development and poverty around the world is going to be a critical component of our foreign policy, " he added.

我认为，解决全球的发展和贫困问题将成为美国外交政策中十分重要的一部分。

But even in quite poor countries, a different concept of poverty also seems to creep in, the authors argue.

但是，学者们认为即使在非常贫困的国家，也开始对贫困不同的定义。

Poverty is often linked in the public mind with dependency.

在普通民众脑海中，贫穷经常和依赖联系在一起。

We may first think of the distance between the Rich and the Poor, but why are the poor always in the state of poverty?

我们可能首先想到的是贫富差距问题，但为何穷人总是那么穷呢？

That may seem counterintuitive for a bicycle maker trying to shed the link between its product and poverty, but the campaign worked.

在自行车制造者的既有印象中，自行车和贫穷是关联的，但是这个活动打破了这种印象。

Poverty is usually part of the problem, but it's not the only problem.

贫困通常会占一部分，但并不是唯一的问题。

The extra funds are to help with the speed and efficiency of the bank's poverty alleviation efforts.

新增资金将用于提高亚行减少贫困项目的进展速度和效率。

The grim figure leaves no doubt that serious pain awaits in the form of increased poverty and unemployment.

毫无疑问，这个可怕的数字将带来新增失业和贫穷，令人们备受煎熬。

There has never been a more urgent need for results in the global fight against poverty.

对在全球反贫困斗争中取得成效的需要比以往任何时候都更为紧迫。

But their efforts have proved that reform is possible, even in a city that has tended to blame poverty and racism for its appalling schools.

但他们的付出证明教育改革是有可行性的，即使是在一个往往将教育失败问题归咎于贫困问题和种族歧视的城市里。

The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.

金正日掌权时，朝鲜是一个衰落之中的共产主义工业强国，但在他的治下却陷入赤贫。

Despite poverty and great odds, they were supporting themselves and their families and trying to find new ways to improve their lives.

由于贫困与诸多，但她们正在养家糊口并寻找改善生活的新方式。

The IIED, based in London, commissioned the research as part of a broader programme to examine the links between biodiversity and poverty.

设在伦敦的IIED委托进行了这项研究，作为审视生物多样性和贫穷之间联系的一个更大的项目的一部分。

These figures suggest that, at school at least, black people's problem is not so much race as poverty.

这些数字说明，至少在学校，黑人的问题在于贫穷，而不是种族；

My old clothes are a witness to my poverty.

我的旧衣服就是我贫穷的证据。

He brought himself to poverty.

他陷入贫困之中。

The people were borne down by universal poverty, disease, illiteracy and repression.

人民却被普遍的贫穷、疾病、文盲和苛政压得透不过气来。

She was willing to face poverty.

她甘心面对贫穷。

They well knew what poverty and suffering were.

他们非常了解什么是贫穷和痛苦。

Poverty is preferable to ill-health.

贫穷比不健康好一点。

He was sent to prison to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1836.

他由于还不起债而被关进监狱，1836年他因贫困而死。

Poverty dogged him also.

贫穷也跟他结下不解之缘。

In the old society, the labouring people lived in the depth of misery and poverty.

在旧社会，劳动人民生活在苦难贫困的深渊中。

The people here are reduced to dire poverty because of (the) natural disasters.

这里的人们由于自然灾害而穷不聊生。

He had never looked down on Mr. Harding on account of his recent poverty.

他从来没有因为哈定先生新近的贫困而看不起他。

They want to see what we were able to do with the most poverty-ridden section of the United States.

他们想看看我们把美国最贫穷的地区改造成什么样。

The Distress Committee was not the only body pretending to deal with the poverty problem.

扬言要来解决贫困问题的还不止救灾委员会一家。

They were hunted from place to place, and learned all there was to know about poverty, hunger, and distress.

他们被人到处追踪，尝尽了一切贫穷，饥饿和苦难的滋味。

From her youth up she had seen little but poverty.

从少年时代起，她所经历的尽是穷困的生活。

Government claims that there is no poverty are belied by the number of homeless people on the streets.

大街上无家可归者的人数证明政府所声称的没有贫困的说法是谎言。

An opportunity exists to break into the circle and to begin lifting the country out of poverty.

打破恶性循环开始把国家从贫困中拯救出来的机会是存在的。

It is the opinion of this meeting that socialism is the only remedy for Unemployment and Poverty.

大会一致认为社会主义是失业和贫困的唯一解救办法。

She had never seen such poverty before, and by the same token could not quite believe it.

她从未见过如此的穷困，而且也不太相信竟有如此的穷困存在。

These things were the truth, and they felt the sense of poverty and depression lifted from them.

这些东西都是真实的，她们觉得贫穷感和抑郁感一扫而光。

The fund was used to subsidize college students from poverty-stricken areas.

这笔基金用于补助来自贫困地区的大学生。

However dismal the urban, scene may appear to the visitor, levels of rural poverty can be worse.

不管在旅游者看来城市景象多么暗淡，农村的贫困程度更为严重。

"See the curse of poverty, Nell, " he said.

“你看这便是穷神作祟，耐儿，”他说着。

She surveyed what crops were grown, what animals there were, and analysed without difficulty the causes of their poverty.

他调查了一下所种庄稼的种类，牲畜的数目，於是一下子就分析出了他们贫困的原因。

Poverty detrudes her into a condition below beasts.

贫穷令她陷入鸡狗不如的困境。

I had forgotten the taste of poverty during the years I'd been earning my living by writing and lecturing.

在我以写作和演讲为生的几年中，我已忘记贫困的滋味。

Such methods increased the poverty of the people and were a direct incentive to smuggling.

这些措施加剧了人民的贫困，直接刺激了走私活动。

Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty.

在那些生活贫困的人中，老年人占有很大的比例。

He was arguing that poverty may be a blessing.

他曾一度主张贫穷或许是福。

The depression brought intense poverty to the South.

大萧条给南方带来了极大的贫困。

For many people, there seems to be no escape from poverty; in other words, they are poor, and they have no hope that this will ever change.

对许多人来说，贫穷似乎无法逃避，换句话说，他们是是穷人，并且不指望这种情况会有所改变。

One Chinese web portal devoted a special page to reports on the poverty belt, with a headline "so close and yet so far" .

一家中国门户网站专门辟出一个网页用于报道北京、天津的周边贫穷地区的经济状况，其标题是“近在咫尺，却远若天涯”。

The effect of the land enclosure was to leave the poor peasants in a vicious circle of poverty.

圈地的后果是将贫穷农民陷入贫困的恶性循环。

If you know how to deal with that, then you'll be able to handle problems of war and poverty and conflicts.

如果你知道如何去处理它，你将有能力解决由战争，贫困和纠纷所带来的麻烦。

The idea behind Project Pyramid was to give students the tools and knowledge with which to apply business solutions to poverty alleviation.

金字塔计划的目的，是赋予学生们工具和知识，将商业解决方案应用于减少贫困。

They had known the sort of poverty where there was not enough to eat, and each day was filled with grinding labour.

他们所知道的贫穷就是饭吃不饱，而且每天都充满艰辛的体力劳动。

He said he had been impelled to crime by poverty.

他说贫困逼得他犯罪。

The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes.

在这个造奥林匹克冠军是如此在行的（体育）体系下，它似乎甚至更擅长的是制造贫困潦倒的退役运动员。

On average, one child out of every eight living in an OECD country in 2005 was living in poverty.

2005年，生活在OECD成员国的孩子平均八分之一的人生活在贫困之中。

Not such an unusual ambition for many girls these days, except that just a few years ago, Julieth faced a future of only poverty and abuse.

对于这个时代的女孩来说，这个理想算不上惊世骇俗；但是对于一个几年前还饱受贫穷之苦、受尽凌辱的女孩来说，这个梦想就显得难能可贵了。

But ethnicity combined with poverty can be a barrier: two-thirds of out-of-school girls around the world belong to ethnic minority groups.

但种族和贫困问题则是构成上学的障碍：全球三分之二的失学女童属于少数族裔群体。

But Lizi became to know only learning can help her to leave the hardship and poverty.

然而，庆幸的是莉齐-梅丽开始懂得唯有掌握了学识才能够摆脱贫困的命运。

"For poverty, for the environment, for sustainability, we have to work together, " she said.

她说，“为了贫苦大众，为了环境，为了可持续发展，我们必须开展合作。”

He said the crisis puts at risk recent hard-won gains in faster economic growth, lower poverty and greater political stability.

他说，这次危机使得这些国家本应用于加快经济发展，减少平困，增强政局稳定的来之不易的收益又处于危险之中。

She spoke fiercely and freely about racism, poverty and sexism in a way that would have been impossible for a sitting president at the time.

她积极地批判种族主义、性别主义和贫穷——这些都是当时一个坐在轮椅上的总统无法做到的。

China's embrace of globalization has been a great boon for China and the world. It has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

中国的全球化一直是中国和世界的一大福音，它使几亿人民摆脱了贫穷。

It is possible to have economic development without significant job creation, which then leads to lesser impact on poverty reduction.

它是可能的经济发展，而没有显著的就业机会，从而导致较小的影响减少贫困。

That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty!

像我们这样本来有可能成为超级富国的国家，竟陷入如此贫困的境地！

But proximity seems to be teaching well-off cariocas that abandonment is no solution for poverty and violence.

但是这似乎使富裕的里约本地人意识到，放弃并不是解决贫穷和暴力的途径。

Africa missed out on the manufacturing revolution that lifted East Asia's economies out of poverty and into prosperity.

非洲错过了东亚国家摆脱贫困、取得繁荣发展的制造业革命，但是现在，非洲不必再度落后。

I have borne great poverty myself.

我本人已经为极度的贫困所拖累。