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poverty单词基本解析：

n.贫穷; 短缺
n.贫困, 贫乏, 劣质
n.贫穷；缺乏，不足；贫瘠，不毛；低劣

poverty变化用词：

poverty英英释义：

Noun

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

名词 poverty:

the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

同义词：poorness, impoverishment

poverty[ 'pɔvəti ]n.the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

同义词：poornessimpoverishment

poverty中文词源：

poverty用法和例句：

conditions of abject/extreme poverty

极度贫穷的状况

to alleviate/relieve poverty

缓解 / 解除贫困

Many elderly people live in poverty .

许多老年人生活于贫困之中。

There is a poverty of colour in her work.

她的作品缺乏色彩。

According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty...

根据世界银行的统计数字，41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。

Garvey died in loneliness and poverty.

加维在孤独和穷困中死去。

Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition.

英国一直缺乏远大理想。

...a poverty of ideas.

思想贫乏

He envisaged an old age of loneliness and poverty.

他面对着一个孤独而贫困的晚年.

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He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture.

他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解.

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His sudden death reduced the family to poverty.

他突然去世使家庭陷入贫困.

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The relation of disease to poverty and ignorance is easy to see.

疾病与贫穷、无知之间的关系是显而易见的.

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Sloth is the mother of poverty.

懒惰是贫穷的原因.

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Neither riches nor honours can corrupt him ; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle ; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him.

富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移, 威武不能屈.

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Being out of work causes poverty.

失业导致贫困.

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We must continue to war against poverty and disease.

我们一定要继续同贫穷和疾病作斗争.

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It's easy to be concerned with problems across the other side of the world and not see the poverty and unhappiness on your own doorstep.

人们往往会关注世界另一端的问题,而忽略了家门口的贫困和不幸.

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His whole life is a fight against poverty and unemployment.

他的一生是与贫苦和失业斗争的一生.

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Poverty and disease often go together.

贫穷和疾病时常相伴而来.

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He views boxing as his passport out of poverty.

他把拳击看作自己摆脱贫困的手段.

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Can we ever eliminate poverty from the world?

我们有朝一日能消除世上的贫困 吗 ?

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Hunger is the accompaniment of poverty.

饥饿是贫困的伴随物.

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Arthur's books tend to poverty.

亚瑟的书趋于单调乏味.

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He brought himself to poverty.

他陷入贫困之中.

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the dehumanizing effects of poverty and squalor

贫穷和肮脏的环境造成丧失人性的结果

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A third of the population is living at or below the poverty line .

三分之一的人口生活在贫困线或以下。

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Poverty is a recurrent theme in her novels.

贫穷是她的小说中惯有的主题。

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the poverty and squalor of the slums

贫民窟的贫穷和肮脏

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Relative poverty, however, did not prevent Martin from equipping himself with an excellent education.

然而，较为贫困的状况并没有阻止马丁让自己接受一流的教育。

柯林斯例句

Poverty and unemployment are frustratingly hard to tackle.

贫穷和失业是难以解决的问题，这常常让人泄气。

柯林斯例句

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When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.

[谚]贫穷进门来，爱情越窗飞。

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

“你看这便是穷神作祟，耐儿，”他说着。

Very soon 'Third World' came to connote poverty.

“第三世界”一词很快就带有了贫穷这个含义。

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

一、消除极度贫穷和饥荒。

Some students quit school due to poverty.

一些学生因贫困而辍学。

Some native Americans are still living in poverty.

一些美洲土人仍然生活在贫困之中。

Lack of population control can result in poverty.

不进行人口控制会造成贫穷。

It is hard to contend with poverty.

与贫穷奋斗是很困难的

Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。

To break out of the poverty trap they need help from the government.

为了摆脱贫困的处境，他们需要政府的帮助。

One usually associates poverty with misery.

人们一说到贫穷，常常就联想起悲惨的境遇。

The people enjoy freedom from poverty.

人们享有免於穷困的生活。

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。

Foreign travel opened his eyes to poverty for the first time.

他一到外国才初次见识到什麽是贫穷。

He suffered from poverty all his life.

他一生受贫穷之苦。

He had no idea of poverty in the concrete.

他不了解贫困的实际含义。

He pleaded poverty in extenuation of (ie as an excuse for) the theft.

他以贫穷为藉口请求为他犯的偷窃罪从轻量刑。

They were handicapped by (a) poverty of resources.

他们因资源短缺处境窘迫。

They were ground down by poverty.

他们备受贫穷的折磨。

They take great pleasure in reminding us of our poverty.

他们特别喜欢向我们提到我们穷。

Their only common bond is their poverty.

他们的唯一共同纽带是贫穷。

Their goal was to eradicate poverty.

他们的目标是消除贫困

They asked him to pay for the damage but he pleaded poverty.

他们要他付损害赔偿金，但他藉口贫穷而不偿还。

They are living in wretched poverty.

他们过着可怜的贫苦生活。

They well knew what poverty and suffering were.

他们非常了解什么是贫穷和痛苦。

He seemed doomed to live a life of poverty.

他似乎注定要过贫困的生活。

He is doubly troubled, by illness and poverty.

他受着疾病和贫穷的双重困扰。

His later stories are not interesting because of their poverty of imagination.

他后来写的故事因为缺乏想像力而枯燥乏味。

He was frustrated by his poverty.

他因贫穷而灰心丧气。

He lived the rest of her life in poverty.

他在贫困潦倒地度过余生。

He grew up in an environment of poverty.

他在贫穷的环境中长大。

He languished in poverty for years.

他多年挣扎在贫困之中。

He dwelt in poverty most of his life.

他大半生生活贫困。

He languished in poverty most of his life.

他大半辈子在贫穷中呻吟。

He lived in poverty most of his life.

他大半辈子过的都是穷日子。

He waged a long war against poverty.

他对贫穷作长期的挑战。

Despite his poverty, he refuse to part with the family jewel.

他尽管贫穷，却不肯变卖家中的珠宝。

He often alluded to his poverty .

他常提及他的穷困。

He led a life of poverty for many years.

他度过了多年的贫困生活。

He equates poverty with suffering.

他把贫穷和痛苦等同起来。

He knew poverty and sorrow in his early life .

他早年经历过贫穷和不幸。

He knew poverty and sorrow in his early days.

他早年饱尝过穷困和忧愁。

He was arguing that poverty may be a blessing .

他曾一度主张贫穷或许是福。

He was fated to die in poverty.

他注定在贫困中死去.

He lives in a state of extreme poverty.

他生活在极度穷困中。

His family lives below the poverty line.

他的一家生活极端艰苦。

His extravagance lead him to poverty.

他的奢侈让他走向穷困。

His ragged clothes were witness to his poverty.

他的破烂衣物可以证明他很贫穷.

He is proof against corruption as witness his poverty.

他的贫困足以证明他是廉洁的。

He lived in genteel poverty.

他虽穷却爱摆排场。

He argues that one of the root causes of crime is poverty.

他认为犯罪的一个根本原因是贫穷。

He equates poverty with misery.

他认为贫穷就是不幸。

He said he had been to impelled crime by poverty.

他说他被穷困所逼而犯罪。

He said he had been impelled to crime by poverty.

他说贫困逼得他犯罪。

He has known both poverty and wealth.

他贫富生活都亲身经历过。

He led the battle against poverty and disease.

他领导着这一场与贫困和疾病斗争的战役。

You need not be ashamedof your poverty.

你不必因贫穷而感到惭愧。

A woman who belongs to a religious order or congregation devoted to active service or meditation, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

修女，尼姑归属或献身于具有积极的仪式或冥想的宗教制度或团体的女性，生活在贫穷，贞洁和服从中

Don't give me that. You plead poverty and yet you drive around in a new car.

别期望我会相信那事。你说穷，却还开新车到处跑。。

Million live below the poverty line in India.

印度生活于贫穷线之下的人口。

What though we are reduced to want and poverty!

即使我们沦于贫困也无妨！

Only the socialist system can eradicate poverty.

只有社会主义制度才能从根本上解决摆脱贫穷的问题。

It is arguable that the poverty of Portugal caused the discovery of India.

可以说印度是因为葡萄牙贫穷才被发现的。

A fearful blunder;fearful poverty.

可怕的疏忽；可怕的贫穷

British writer best known for his novels about poverty and hardship, such as New Grub Street(1891).

吉辛，乔治·罗伯特1857－1903英国作家，以其关于贫穷和艰辛的小说最出名，比如新穷人街(1891年)

The gentleman glories in his honorable poverty.

君子安贫。

Fate had ordained that he should die in poverty.

命中注定他得死于贫困。

I love her all the better for her poverty (=because she is poor).

因为她穷，我反而更喜欢她。

St. Francis wanted to sanctify poverty, not to abolish it.

圣弗朗西斯想圣化贫困而不是消除它。

There are many gradations between poverty and wealth.

在贫富之间有许多等级。

All kinds of poverty are present in the slums.

在贫民凶就能看到形形色色的苦境。

Poverty and disease are common in the slums.

在贫民区里,贫因和疾病是很普遍的。

Extremes of poverty and affluence meet in this mushrooming town.

在这个新兴的城市里，贫穷和富裕（两极）并列。

In those hard years, they lived in poverty.

在那艰苦的岁月里，他们生活十分贫困。

Poverty is much in evidence in the city slums.

城市贫民窟的穷困是显而易见的。

Town poverty group has humble existence actuality.

城镇贫困群体的规模不断扩大,分布上呈现明显的行业性和区域性特点。

The depression brought intense poverty to the South.

大萧条给南方带来了极大的贫困。

Large numbers exist in perpetual poverty.

大量的人长期生活在贫困之中。

Unemployment is a major cause of poverty.

失业是贫困的主要原因。

She has lived in poverty all her life.

她一生都过着贫困的生活。

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People in this area were ground down by hunger and poverty.
这个地区的人们受着饥饿和贫穷的折磨。

The man lived in poverty after his unemployment.
这人失业后就生活在贫困之中。

Poverty reduced him to begging.
贫穷迫使他行乞。

They were handicapped by (a) poverty of resources.
他们因资源短缺处境窘迫。

They were recognizable by the poverty of their dress.
根据衣着寒酸这一点可以把他们认出来.

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