poverty

英[ˈpɒvəti]美[ˈpɑːvərti]

n.贫穷，短缺；

例句

carry on war against the unholy trinity of poverty, illiteracy, and disease向贫穷、文盲、疾病这邪恶的三位一体开战

There are some areas of poverty, but the country as a whole is fairly prosperous.这个国家有些地区比较贫困, 但总的来说是相当富裕的。

His sudden death reduced the family to poverty.他突然去世使家庭陷入贫困。

How can we get away from poverty?我们怎样才能摆脱贫困呢?

Arthur's books tend to poverty.亚瑟的书趋于单调乏味。

They may grant you power,honour,and riches but afflict you with servitude,infamy,and poverty.他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富,但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。

Poverty obliged her to live a hard life.贫困迫使她过艰苦的生活。

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。

The bad harvests in the last few years reduced the peasants to extreme poverty.过去几年的庄稼歉收使农民变得极为贫困。

He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture.他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解。

英语六级真题

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

Hello, today I’m going to talk about poverty.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

He deems it indispensable for combating global poverty.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.

The poverty rate among women in the U.S. rose to 14.5% last year.

Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor (肮脏), disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers.

Huge obstacles It could, of course, also be that Obama's success helps people to forget that a disproportionate number of black Americans still live in poverty and face huge obstacles when trying to overcome these circumstances

And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

Hello, today I'm going to talk about poverty.

People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today's world.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

The Child Poverty Action Group says 9 out of 30 in every classroom fall below the poverty line.

The method of calculating the poverty line is different from country to country.

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-UNCOUNT

贫穷；贫困

Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.

例句

N-SING

贫乏；短缺；低劣

You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor.

例句

英汉词典释义

n.

贫穷, 贫困

缺少; 贫乏

低劣; 劣质

英英词典释义

Noun

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

行业词典

医学： 贫乏，缺乏：必需物质或成分的缺少或缺如；