单词poverty
n.: 贫困；贫穷；贫乏；短缺
网络: 缺少；缺乏；穷困
贫穷；贫困:
the state of being poor
贫乏；短缺；劣质:
a lack of sth; poor quality
虚弱;低劣
缺乏,缺少,贫乏,不足; (土地的)贫瘠,不毛
贫穷
adj.+n.:
extreme poverty,abject poverty,great poverty,widespread poverty
v.+n.:
reduce poverty,alleviate poverty,relieve poverty,abolish poverty
n.needinessdestitutionhardshipdistressneed
n.affluencesurplus
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？