poor

英[pɔː(r) , pʊə(r)]美[pʊr , pɔːr]

adj.贫穷的，贫乏的，令人怜悯的，可怜的，匮乏的，低劣的；

n.the poor 贫困者，穷人；

比较级：poorer;

*高级：poorest;

例句

The poor boy is usually knocked about by his stepfather.那个不幸的男孩常遭继父殴打。

He is a poor musician for all his training.尽管他经过训练, 他还是一个蹩脚的乐师。

problems arising from poor ventilation因通风不良而产生的问题

The millionaire cast off his daughter when she married a poor young man.当那个百万富翁的女儿嫁给一个穷小子时, 他断绝了和女儿的关系。

I hope you’re not overworking that poor boy.我希望你没有驱使那个可怜的男孩工作过度。

The poor woman must be got away from the children for a while and allowed to have a good rest.这可怜的女人一定得和她的孩子们分离一段时间以便好好休息一下。

The poor fox escaped from the trap at the cost of a leg.那只可怜的小狐狸逃出了陷阱, 却失去了一条腿。

They were miserably poor.他们极度贫困。

It’s a poor teacher who can only control the class by roaring at the children.只会靠向孩子吼叫来维持秩序的老师是无能的。

Try some of this sparkling white wine—the poor man’s champagne.尝尝这种白葡萄汽酒吧,这是穷人的香槟酒。

英语六级真题

While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.

Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.

It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

In poor, dry regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.

Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.

It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.

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.

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs（横档） in that ladder have grown farther apart.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

But onlyif they operate at near capacity,otherwise, their overall efficiency is poor.

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs (横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.

And the World Resources Institute WR in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; It also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer p

But poor diet and physical inactivity also each increase the risk of heart disease and have a role to play in the development of some cancers.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake city, with high levels of two- parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rag

In poor, dry regions, untreated waste water is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business.

Movement out of city centers was widespread, and downtown tenants were predominantly made up of the working poor.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn't suffer the same pitfalls.

Perhaps the most dramatic example of the negative consequences of poor communication between scientists and the public is the issue of climate change, where a variety of factors, not the least of which is a breakdown in the transmission of fundamental cli

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

So this shows negative consequences of poor dietary intake can occur even when body weight has not changed conspicuously.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults?

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

The relatively poor live in high-income countries but they do not have a high income themselves.

These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is greater than it has ever been.

Whereas some of the low-self-control study members are more likely to be single parents with a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substance abuser.

Yet, she noted, many young people are especially unwilling to take risks at school—afraid that one low test score or poor grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

（人）贫穷的，贫困的

Someone who is poor has very little money and few possessions.

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ADJ-GRADED

（国家、地区等）贫穷的，贫困的

The people in a poor country or area have very little money and few possessions.

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ADJ

可怜的；不幸的

You use poor to express your sympathy for someone.

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ADJ-GRADED

劣质的；糟糕的

If you describe something as poor, you mean that it is of a low quality or standard or that it is in bad condition.

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ADJ-GRADED

（数量、比率等）不理想的，不合理的

If you describe an amount, rate, or number as poor, you mean that it is less than expected or less than is considered reasonable.

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ADJ-GRADED

不熟练的；蹩脚的

You use poor to describe someone who is not very skilful in a particular activity.

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ADJ-GRADED

贫乏的；缺少的

If something is poor in a particular quality or substance, it contains very little of the quality or substance.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

贫困的, 贫穷的, 贫寒, 清贫

贫乏的; 缺乏; 缺少

低劣的; 次等的; 劣质的; 差的; 次的

(身体)衰弱的

可怜的; 不幸的; 令人同情的

不擅长的；不熟练的

n.

the poor 贫困者；穷人

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. moderate to inferior in quality;

2. deserving or inciting pity;

3. having little money or few possessions;

4. characterized by or indicating lack of money;

5. low in degree;

6. badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances;

7. not sufficient to meet a need;

8. unsatisfactory;

9. yielding little by great labor;

行业词典

体育： 不高明的；水平不高的；