poverty
n. 贫穷; 短缺
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.
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。
You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor.
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
1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
He envisaged an old age of loneliness and poverty.
他面对着一个孤独而贫困的晚年.
He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture.
他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解.
His sudden death reduced the family to poverty.
他突然去世使家庭陷入贫困.
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.
Sloth is the mother of poverty.
懒惰是贫穷的原因.
n. 缺少,不足,耗尽,空
dearthdepletionpaucityinsufficiencyscarcitywantsupplyshortagelackneedshortabsence
n. 贫乏;空乏
shortnessmeagrenessbarenessscarcenessexiguityscantinessscantness
n. 贫穷,贫困;穷困;困难;饥饿
indigencedestitutionnecessitousnessdistressbarenarrowpenurycupboardstraitsexistencedifficultieshand-to-mouthimpoverishmentfinancialpennilessnessbeggaryimpecuniousnessstarvationprivationpoornesshungerpauperismneedinesshomelessness
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