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单词 poverty
释义
poverty
pɒvəʳti ˈpɑvərti
1 N-UNCOUNT 贫穷;贫困 Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. 贫穷;贫困
  • 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。

SYN pennilessness, want, need, distress
2 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. 贫乏;短缺;低劣 [formal]
  • Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. [+ of]

    英国一直缺乏远大理想。

  • ...a poverty of ideas.

    思想贫乏

SYN scarcity, lack, absence, want
Quotations
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor James Baldwin Nobody Knows My Name
Give me not poverty lest I steal Daniel Defoe Review (later incorporated into Moll Flanders)
The want of money is the root of all evil Samuel Butler Erewhon
No man should commend poverty unless he is poor Saint Bernard
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little Ivy Compton-Burnett A Family and a Fortune
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