Definition of poor in English:

poor

adjective pɔːpʊə

1Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
穷的，贫穷的，贫困的
they were too poor to afford a telephone
穷得买不起电话的人。
the gap between the rich and the poor has widened
贫富差距已经拉大。
Example sentencesExamples
- In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society.
- Excuse me, but wouldn't that involve transferring wealth from rich individuals and societies to the poor?
- After retirement, he is still serving the society, especially the poor.
- She lives in housing for poor seniors and cannot afford to repair her own vehicle, which she says broke down four years ago.
- It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor.
- Today the national society serves the poor with its free soup kitchens and numerous forms of humanitarian relief.
- The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations.
- Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
- In our developing, but poor and deprived, society it is the task of the government to provide the means of education.
- Tarleton says he lives poor for political reasons: he doesn't pay income tax.
- For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap.
- The nun wrote that she had been fearful of having to live among the poor, but that Christ reminded her that she had always said He could do with her as He pleased.
- The essays are written by women who either grew up poor or are currently living in poverty.
- The purpose and character of the festival We Are One Family is to unite orphans who have been living in poor conditions.
- Narayana is a poor radio mechanic who lives in Vittal, Karnataka, and has a four-member family.
- The reforms would widen the gap between rich and poor, creating a society of haves and have-nots.
- For six years he lived among the poor along the Code River in Yogyakarta, and built a Community Centre for them.
- Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference.
- You ask me why we cannot spend all our money to feed the poor and make them live a better life instead of going for Hajj.
- Until the beginning of the 20th century, Bavaria was a mostly agrarian society and a poor one at that.
- Perhaps the poor, who live in adobe houses, ran amok with automatic dishwashers.
Synonyms
poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless
1. 1.1 (of a place) inhabited by people with little money.
  （地方）穷人住的，贫苦的
  the world's poorest countries
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country.
  The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner.
  For one thing, their kids will get all the money, and the poor world will get diddly-squat.
  A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones.
  The main poor site in the town was at the Industrial Estate off Monean Junction.
  India is not the only poor place on earth and violence is not all terrorism related.
  And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world.
  The blasts struck in rapid succession during rush hour on two parallel and adjacent streets in a poor district of the city.
  Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam.
  Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building.
  Many of those youths, identified as coming in from the poor suburbs, battled the police, burned cars and smashed store windows.
  The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor with an unemployment rate of 80 percent.
  Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people.
  The mistake led the government to waive thousands of pounds in stamp duty in a well-to-do suburb instead of poor areas of Manchester.
  The church is growing most in poor places like Africa and Asia where infant mortality remains high.
  The only negative thing about this is that it only applies to the western world, as other parts of the world are too poor to invest money in similar projects.
  The place was very poor, the bedroom being upstairs and accessible only by a ladder.
  They both laboured to earn enough to take a lease on a small farm at Gumeracha, near Adelaide, but the land was poor and the rainfall scant.
  A poor place to be when, as he expects, the negotiations begin some time after the next elections.
  I live in a poor state that does not allocate sufficient resources to education.
2Of a low or inferior standard or quality.
many people are eating a very poor diet
很多人都吃得很差。
her work was poor
她干的活很糟糕。
Example sentencesExamples
- Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education.
- Information dissemination and knowledge of law are poor at this level.
- In a poor quality second half, the home side added another two goals.
- The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help.
- A local police official blamed shoddy construction and the poor quality of the cement.
- Even if the football is usually secondary, and poor quality.
- Ignatius Street was a particular problem area with the quality of lighting very poor at each end of it.
- Generally I think the police service is pretty poor at disseminating good practice.
- Property services, which were poor at the last inspection have improved little and remain unsatisfactory.
- Like Victor Agarwel, I am inclined to think councils are very poor at thinking all the issues through.
- If only 10 people apply you have to take all comers - those who will be good, mediocre, and poor at the job.
- Bedfordshire was rated weak by Government inspectors last year and poor at its previous inspection.
- Conditions were poor at the turn of the century and employment was at a low ebb.
- The council has been rated ‘fair’ the middle ranking on a scale that ranges from poor at one end to excellent on the other.
- Kitchens received were faulty or poor quality with damaged parts.
- The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best.
- Thai motorists have a new ally in the fight against poor vehicle quality and shoddy after-sales service.
- Hall is a lifelong resident of the valley, where poor air quality is second only to that of Los Angeles.
- The quality of the Parke Group Water Scheme is very poor at present and should not be used until further notices.
- But the Decatur plant is not the only facility cited for poor quality standards.
Synonyms
substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre
abject, appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dismal, dreadful, unsatisfactory, low-grade, second-rate, third-rate, jerry-built, shoddy, crude, tinny, trashy, rubbishy, miserable, wretched, lamentable, deplorable, pitiful, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, execrable, frightful
informal crummy, dire, bum, diabolical, rotten, sad, tatty, tenth-rate
British informal ropy, duff, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, grotty
US informal weak sauce
vulgar slang crap, crappy
archaic direful
rare egregious
1. 2.1poor in Deficient or lacking in.
  缺乏的，缺少的，贫乏的
  the water is poor in nutrients
  这种水缺少营养物质。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It doesn't matter how poor in quality the disciple may be: it matters only that he believe implicitly.
  The hospital had a good system in place to monitor risks but was poor in learning from the available information.
  To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness.
  If the legislature's hardware is poor in quality, its software is even worse.
  The reason why the bones were boiled for a long time was that it was believed the bones were poor in nutritive value.
  He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude.
  That's how I feel about most of Burton's work - great in concept, poor in execution.
  I bawled at the Guardian executive, because the reception is pretty poor in some parts of the Chilterns.
  We are not putting both these to good use as a result the fruits we are producing are poor in quality and less in quantum.
  Children and adults who excel in one area, such as math, are very poor in other areas.
  Iraq is relatively poor in species because of the arid nature of much of the country.
  Today, albeit poor in reception quality, I got to catch familiar faces reading news.
  Today, Israel is rich in material things but poor in others - the things of the mind.
  Synonyms
  deficient in, lacking (in), wanting (in), short of/on, low on, missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few/little …
2. 2.2dated Used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself.
  〈旧〉谦卑的，卑微的，卑下的
  he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man
  以鄙人之见，他更是一个英俊小生。
3attributive (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy.
（人）可怜的，值得同情的
they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip
他们询问了可怜的多萝西折断髋骨的情况。
Example sentencesExamples
- In spite of his less than friendly attitude toward the man, Carson couldn't help feeling some sympathy for the poor guy.
- I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing.
- And I pity the poor judge who's going to have to explain those words to a jury.
- Pity the poor guy who had to cut all the peats to keep that warm in the winter.
- I have the greatest sympathy for this poor woman in her tragic loss, but just think about it!
- I saw it's running until March next year and I pity the poor staff.
- I mean, I just pity poor William, what the hell that man is going to face as he comes in to open life.
- We have no shows of sympathy for the poor man trying to fit everything into 24 hours.
- She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath.
- The aging process had clearly not taken any pity on poor Judge Wykk at all.
- The manager instantly began to pity the poor man, but not too much and walked away.
- Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons.
- James knew very well what Ben wanted to test, and once again he felt a stab of pity for the poor girl.
- Pity those poor residents who put up with those conditions on a daily basis!
- And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date.
- Pity poor Kenneth Welsh, with the weaselly demeanor only a mother could love.
- Then lunchtimes: pity the poor teachers who had class last thing before lunch on a Friday.
- Pity the poor child who makes any kind of a drawing that has anything to do with firearms.
- What did this poor woman do to deserve a child like Geoff?
- Pity the poor man born in Glasgow's Shettleston, for example, who is not expected to make 65.
Synonyms
unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched

Phrases

(as) poor as a church mouse

Extremely poor.
一贫如洗，贫困潦倒
Example sentencesExamples
- Basically, here is my deal: I just graduated from law school (I went to Pitt) and I am as poor as a church mouse, as I have yet to find a ‘real’ job, and I am trying to pay some horrid student loans.
- The local officials (who secured and guaranteed the loan) have long been replaced and the farmers are as poor as church mice,’ Chen said.
- Everyone was as poor as church mice but you enjoyed life without material things.
- Is it just sour grapes because I'm poor as a church mouse and live half a planet away from all the action?
- They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice.
- For Louis Hawthorne had been written out of his father's will and was, at that time, as poor as a church mouse.
- Whilst carving the oak beam he remarked, ‘I am as poor as a church mouse.’
- The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse.
- He also learns that his brother is very well off and confides in the priest that he is unsure how his brother will receive him since he is as poor as a church mouse now.
Synonyms
poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless

poor little rich boy (or girl)

A wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment.
常用来表示含嘲弄语气的同情可怜的小富哥（或妹）
Example sentencesExamples
- And god, I wanted to be the poor little rich girl.
- In response to both mentalities, however, America turns out to be a poor little rich girl who needs nothing more than the real virility of Australia or the real domesticity of England.
- I played Aleisha Smiler, who was more or less a poor little rich girl.
- My favourite is Shannon, the poor little rich girl (yet to get her own backstory).
- Its titular heroine is a poor little rich girl, looking for, and ostensibly finding, Mr Right in Vienna during the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- After Jemima's decision to complain publicly about her lifestyle, it is easy to brand her a poor little rich girl.
- Were her actions not described with such painful clarity and raw truthfulness, it would be easy to dismiss Millie and her angst as the story of another poor little rich girl, playing a dangerous game in a world where she doesn't belong.
- People may have thought it seemed like it was complaining on our parts - because people looked at us like poor little rich girls who have all this money and are celebrities and yet are complaining about not getting more work.
- And then there's Hadley, the quintessential poor little rich girl, happy in her material world but vacant everywhere else.
- I have my usual conflicting beliefs with the ‘poor little rich boys ' part.

the poor man's —

An inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified.
劣质的（或更便宜的）替代品
corduroy has always been the poor man's velvet
灯芯绒一直是天鹅绒的便宜替代品。
Example sentencesExamples
- If I ever achieve my destiny as the poor man's Stephen Fry, I am so going to do that.
- ‘He was not the poor man's Bruce Springsteen,’ says Janet Hackel.
- Steven Seagal is like the poor man's Sylvester Stallone.
- I guess in a way you could think of Dante as the poor man's Tim Burton.
- It's never good when you're the poor man's Knicks.
- Now Dundee is striking back against its image as the poor man's Smolensk.
- It may be seen by some as the poor man's Ferrari, but it is nonetheless one to feel extremely passionate about.
- Yes, somehow the poor man's Adrian Juste has wound up on - what is by default - the coolest radio station on ‘proper’ radio.
- Meanwhile in Virginia, the USA take on the International team in the poor man's Ryder Cup
- Spirit of the Dance was originally regarded as the poor man's Riverdance but has now been seen by more than 30 million people.
- Pardon the pun, but I'm what you'd call the poor man's Kevin Bacon.

poor relation

A person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group.
无名小卒，微不足道的人（或东西）
for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media
多年来收音机一直是媒体中微不足道的一种传播形式。
Example sentencesExamples
- Their counterparts in Scotland and Wales are once again the poor relations, averaging £61,928 for Scottish GPs and £65,014 for Welsh ones.
- According to the survey, livestock farmers remain the poor relations, with sheep farmers' incomes up just 4% to an average €12,900 per annum.
- Press see authors as poor relations of Bollywood but most authors don't see themselves like that,’ Rana Dasgupta says.
- It is becoming clearer too that poorer countries are no longer prepared to be the poor relations of the first world, as at the last round of talks in Cancun, Mexico, when 17 countries turned their backs on what was being proposed.
- Is it any wonder that many in this community believe that we are very much poor relations in health care provision?
- According to a source at the State Department, most Tier 3 countries are the ones that have poor relations with the U.S. government, such as North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.
- He said: ‘Our members are fed up with being the poor relations of the public sector and are determined to demonstrate that strength of feeling to our employer.’
- He said despite having a seat at the table with the leaders of the world's richest nations, the African leaders will still be seen as what he calls poor relations crashing the party.
- One of the things I've always been is an evangelist and I've always felt that the applied arts are very much the poor relations of fine arts - painting, sculpture and architecture.
- He said: ‘I think the people of Mytholmroyd have felt to be treated like the poor relations of Hebden Bridge, which is an area of outstanding beauty.’

take a poor view of

Regard with disapproval.
不喜欢，看不起
Heraclitus took a poor view of popular religion
Example sentencesExamples
- Alan O'Brien rode his second winner, and his first in Ireland, when the Eddie Hales-trained Shuilan stayed on strongly in the bumper but the stewards took a poor view of the way the 19-year-old used his whip.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poure, from Latin pauper.

The Latin word for ‘poor’ pauper, is the base of pauper (early 16th century), poverty (Middle English), and poor. The phrase poor as a church mouse, or ‘extremely poor’, comes from the notion that a church mouse must be particularly deprived as it does not have the opportunity to find pickings from a kitchen or larder, and there are few crumbs to be found in a well-swept church. You sometimes hear a wealthy young person whose money appears to bring them no happiness described as poor little rich girl (or boy). Though he did not coin the phrase, Noël Coward certainly popularized it with his 1925 song ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of poor in US English:

poor

adjective

1Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
穷的，贫穷的，贫困的
people who were too poor to afford a telephone
穷得买不起电话的人。
the gap between the rich and the poor has widened
贫富差距已经拉大。
Example sentencesExamples
- For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap.
- Today the national society serves the poor with its free soup kitchens and numerous forms of humanitarian relief.
- It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor.
- The essays are written by women who either grew up poor or are currently living in poverty.
- Until the beginning of the 20th century, Bavaria was a mostly agrarian society and a poor one at that.
- She lives in housing for poor seniors and cannot afford to repair her own vehicle, which she says broke down four years ago.
- After retirement, he is still serving the society, especially the poor.
- Excuse me, but wouldn't that involve transferring wealth from rich individuals and societies to the poor?
- Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society.
- In our developing, but poor and deprived, society it is the task of the government to provide the means of education.
- You ask me why we cannot spend all our money to feed the poor and make them live a better life instead of going for Hajj.
- For six years he lived among the poor along the Code River in Yogyakarta, and built a Community Centre for them.
- Narayana is a poor radio mechanic who lives in Vittal, Karnataka, and has a four-member family.
- The nun wrote that she had been fearful of having to live among the poor, but that Christ reminded her that she had always said He could do with her as He pleased.
- The reforms would widen the gap between rich and poor, creating a society of haves and have-nots.
- Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference.
- Perhaps the poor, who live in adobe houses, ran amok with automatic dishwashers.
- The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations.
- In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society.
- The purpose and character of the festival We Are One Family is to unite orphans who have been living in poor conditions.
- Tarleton says he lives poor for political reasons: he doesn't pay income tax.
Synonyms
poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless
1. 1.1 (of a place) inhabited by people without sufficient money.
  （地方）穷人住的，贫苦的
  a poor area with run-down movie theaters and overcrowded schools
  Example sentencesExamples
  The mistake led the government to waive thousands of pounds in stamp duty in a well-to-do suburb instead of poor areas of Manchester.
  A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones.
  A poor place to be when, as he expects, the negotiations begin some time after the next elections.
  Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people.
  The blasts struck in rapid succession during rush hour on two parallel and adjacent streets in a poor district of the city.
  The only negative thing about this is that it only applies to the western world, as other parts of the world are too poor to invest money in similar projects.
  Many of those youths, identified as coming in from the poor suburbs, battled the police, burned cars and smashed store windows.
  And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world.
  The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner.
  The main poor site in the town was at the Industrial Estate off Monean Junction.
  The church is growing most in poor places like Africa and Asia where infant mortality remains high.
  Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country.
  The place was very poor, the bedroom being upstairs and accessible only by a ladder.
  I live in a poor state that does not allocate sufficient resources to education.
  India is not the only poor place on earth and violence is not all terrorism related.
  For one thing, their kids will get all the money, and the poor world will get diddly-squat.
  They both laboured to earn enough to take a lease on a small farm at Gumeracha, near Adelaide, but the land was poor and the rainfall scant.
  The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor with an unemployment rate of 80 percent.
  Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building.
  Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam.
2Worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality.
糟糕的，不理想的；差的，劣的
many people are eating a very poor diet
很多人都吃得很差。
her work was poor
她干的活很糟糕。
Example sentencesExamples
- But the Decatur plant is not the only facility cited for poor quality standards.
- Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education.
- Information dissemination and knowledge of law are poor at this level.
- The quality of the Parke Group Water Scheme is very poor at present and should not be used until further notices.
- The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help.
- Even if the football is usually secondary, and poor quality.
- Property services, which were poor at the last inspection have improved little and remain unsatisfactory.
- Bedfordshire was rated weak by Government inspectors last year and poor at its previous inspection.
- Like Victor Agarwel, I am inclined to think councils are very poor at thinking all the issues through.
- Thai motorists have a new ally in the fight against poor vehicle quality and shoddy after-sales service.
- If only 10 people apply you have to take all comers - those who will be good, mediocre, and poor at the job.
- Hall is a lifelong resident of the valley, where poor air quality is second only to that of Los Angeles.
- In a poor quality second half, the home side added another two goals.
- The council has been rated ‘fair’ the middle ranking on a scale that ranges from poor at one end to excellent on the other.
- Ignatius Street was a particular problem area with the quality of lighting very poor at each end of it.
- Conditions were poor at the turn of the century and employment was at a low ebb.
- Kitchens received were faulty or poor quality with damaged parts.
- The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best.
- A local police official blamed shoddy construction and the poor quality of the cement.
- Generally I think the police service is pretty poor at disseminating good practice.
Synonyms
substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre
1. 2.1poor inpredicative Deficient or lacking in.
  缺乏的，缺少的，贫乏的
  the water is poor in nutrients
  这种水缺少营养物质。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Children and adults who excel in one area, such as math, are very poor in other areas.
  It doesn't matter how poor in quality the disciple may be: it matters only that he believe implicitly.
  The hospital had a good system in place to monitor risks but was poor in learning from the available information.
  I bawled at the Guardian executive, because the reception is pretty poor in some parts of the Chilterns.
  That's how I feel about most of Burton's work - great in concept, poor in execution.
  We are not putting both these to good use as a result the fruits we are producing are poor in quality and less in quantum.
  Today, Israel is rich in material things but poor in others - the things of the mind.
  To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness.
  He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude.
  Iraq is relatively poor in species because of the arid nature of much of the country.
  The reason why the bones were boiled for a long time was that it was believed the bones were poor in nutritive value.
  Today, albeit poor in reception quality, I got to catch familiar faces reading news.
  If the legislature's hardware is poor in quality, its software is even worse.
  Synonyms
  deficient in, lacking, lacking in, wanting, wanting in, short of, short on, low on, missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few …, with too little …
2. 2.2dated Used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself.
  〈旧〉谦卑的，卑微的，卑下的
  he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man
  以鄙人之见，他更是一个英俊小生。
3attributive (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy.
（人）可怜的，值得同情的
they inquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip
他们询问了可怜的多萝西折断髋骨的情况。
Example sentencesExamples
- James knew very well what Ben wanted to test, and once again he felt a stab of pity for the poor girl.
- Pity poor Kenneth Welsh, with the weaselly demeanor only a mother could love.
- Pity those poor residents who put up with those conditions on a daily basis!
- I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing.
- She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath.
- Pity the poor man born in Glasgow's Shettleston, for example, who is not expected to make 65.
- The aging process had clearly not taken any pity on poor Judge Wykk at all.
- Pity the poor child who makes any kind of a drawing that has anything to do with firearms.
- We have no shows of sympathy for the poor man trying to fit everything into 24 hours.
- What did this poor woman do to deserve a child like Geoff?
- In spite of his less than friendly attitude toward the man, Carson couldn't help feeling some sympathy for the poor guy.
- I saw it's running until March next year and I pity the poor staff.
- Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons.
- I have the greatest sympathy for this poor woman in her tragic loss, but just think about it!
- Then lunchtimes: pity the poor teachers who had class last thing before lunch on a Friday.
- The manager instantly began to pity the poor man, but not too much and walked away.
- And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date.
- I mean, I just pity poor William, what the hell that man is going to face as he comes in to open life.
- And I pity the poor judge who's going to have to explain those words to a jury.
- Pity the poor guy who had to cut all the peats to keep that warm in the winter.
Synonyms
unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched

Phrases

(as) poor as a church mouse

Extremely poor.
一贫如洗，贫困潦倒
Example sentencesExamples
- Is it just sour grapes because I'm poor as a church mouse and live half a planet away from all the action?
- Basically, here is my deal: I just graduated from law school (I went to Pitt) and I am as poor as a church mouse, as I have yet to find a ‘real’ job, and I am trying to pay some horrid student loans.
- They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice.
- For Louis Hawthorne had been written out of his father's will and was, at that time, as poor as a church mouse.
- The local officials (who secured and guaranteed the loan) have long been replaced and the farmers are as poor as church mice,’ Chen said.
- The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse.
- Whilst carving the oak beam he remarked, ‘I am as poor as a church mouse.’
- Everyone was as poor as church mice but you enjoyed life without material things.
- He also learns that his brother is very well off and confides in the priest that he is unsure how his brother will receive him since he is as poor as a church mouse now.
Synonyms
poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless

poor little rich boy (or girl)

A wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment (often used as an expression of mock sympathy).
常用来表示含嘲弄语气的同情可怜的小富哥（或妹）
Example sentencesExamples
- Its titular heroine is a poor little rich girl, looking for, and ostensibly finding, Mr Right in Vienna during the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
- I have my usual conflicting beliefs with the ‘poor little rich boys ' part.
- And then there's Hadley, the quintessential poor little rich girl, happy in her material world but vacant everywhere else.
- My favourite is Shannon, the poor little rich girl (yet to get her own backstory).
- People may have thought it seemed like it was complaining on our parts - because people looked at us like poor little rich girls who have all this money and are celebrities and yet are complaining about not getting more work.
- And god, I wanted to be the poor little rich girl.
- In response to both mentalities, however, America turns out to be a poor little rich girl who needs nothing more than the real virility of Australia or the real domesticity of England.
- I played Aleisha Smiler, who was more or less a poor little rich girl.
- After Jemima's decision to complain publicly about her lifestyle, it is easy to brand her a poor little rich girl.
- Were her actions not described with such painful clarity and raw truthfulness, it would be easy to dismiss Millie and her angst as the story of another poor little rich girl, playing a dangerous game in a world where she doesn't belong.

the poor man's —

An inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified.
劣质的（或更便宜的）替代品
corduroy has always been the poor man's velvet
灯芯绒一直是天鹅绒的便宜替代品。
Example sentencesExamples
- It may be seen by some as the poor man's Ferrari, but it is nonetheless one to feel extremely passionate about.
- It's never good when you're the poor man's Knicks.
- I guess in a way you could think of Dante as the poor man's Tim Burton.
- Yes, somehow the poor man's Adrian Juste has wound up on - what is by default - the coolest radio station on ‘proper’ radio.
- ‘He was not the poor man's Bruce Springsteen,’ says Janet Hackel.
- Now Dundee is striking back against its image as the poor man's Smolensk.
- If I ever achieve my destiny as the poor man's Stephen Fry, I am so going to do that.
- Spirit of the Dance was originally regarded as the poor man's Riverdance but has now been seen by more than 30 million people.
- Pardon the pun, but I'm what you'd call the poor man's Kevin Bacon.
- Meanwhile in Virginia, the USA take on the International team in the poor man's Ryder Cup
- Steven Seagal is like the poor man's Sylvester Stallone.

poor relation

A person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group.
无名小卒，微不足道的人（或东西）
for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media
多年来收音机一直是媒体中微不足道的一种传播形式。
Example sentencesExamples
- According to the survey, livestock farmers remain the poor relations, with sheep farmers' incomes up just 4% to an average €12,900 per annum.
- He said: ‘Our members are fed up with being the poor relations of the public sector and are determined to demonstrate that strength of feeling to our employer.’
- He said: ‘I think the people of Mytholmroyd have felt to be treated like the poor relations of Hebden Bridge, which is an area of outstanding beauty.’
- Is it any wonder that many in this community believe that we are very much poor relations in health care provision?
- Press see authors as poor relations of Bollywood but most authors don't see themselves like that,’ Rana Dasgupta says.
- One of the things I've always been is an evangelist and I've always felt that the applied arts are very much the poor relations of fine arts - painting, sculpture and architecture.
- He said despite having a seat at the table with the leaders of the world's richest nations, the African leaders will still be seen as what he calls poor relations crashing the party.
- According to a source at the State Department, most Tier 3 countries are the ones that have poor relations with the U.S. government, such as North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.
- It is becoming clearer too that poorer countries are no longer prepared to be the poor relations of the first world, as at the last round of talks in Cancun, Mexico, when 17 countries turned their backs on what was being proposed.
- Their counterparts in Scotland and Wales are once again the poor relations, averaging £61,928 for Scottish GPs and £65,014 for Welsh ones.

take a poor view of

Regard with disfavor or disapproval.
不喜欢，看不起
Example sentencesExamples
- Alan O'Brien rode his second winner, and his first in Ireland, when the Eddie Hales-trained Shuilan stayed on strongly in the bumper but the stewards took a poor view of the way the 19-year-old used his whip.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poure, from Latin pauper.

单词	poor
释义	Definition of poor in English: poor adjective pɔːpʊə 1Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society. 穷的，贫穷的，贫困的 they were too poor to afford a telephone 穷得买不起电话的人。 the gap between the rich and the poor has widened 贫富差距已经拉大。 Example sentencesExamples In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society. Excuse me, but wouldn't that involve transferring wealth from rich individuals and societies to the poor? After retirement, he is still serving the society, especially the poor. She lives in housing for poor seniors and cannot afford to repair her own vehicle, which she says broke down four years ago. It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor. Today the national society serves the poor with its free soup kitchens and numerous forms of humanitarian relief. The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations. Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society. In our developing, but poor and deprived, society it is the task of the government to provide the means of education. Tarleton says he lives poor for political reasons: he doesn't pay income tax. For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap. The nun wrote that she had been fearful of having to live among the poor, but that Christ reminded her that she had always said He could do with her as He pleased. The essays are written by women who either grew up poor or are currently living in poverty. The purpose and character of the festival We Are One Family is to unite orphans who have been living in poor conditions. Narayana is a poor radio mechanic who lives in Vittal, Karnataka, and has a four-member family. The reforms would widen the gap between rich and poor, creating a society of haves and have-nots. For six years he lived among the poor along the Code River in Yogyakarta, and built a Community Centre for them. Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference. You ask me why we cannot spend all our money to feed the poor and make them live a better life instead of going for Hajj. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Bavaria was a mostly agrarian society and a poor one at that. Perhaps the poor, who live in adobe houses, ran amok with automatic dishwashers. Synonyms poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless 1.1 (of a place) inhabited by people with little money. （地方）穷人住的，贫苦的 the world's poorest countries Example sentencesExamples Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country. The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner. For one thing, their kids will get all the money, and the poor world will get diddly-squat. A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones. The main poor site in the town was at the Industrial Estate off Monean Junction. India is not the only poor place on earth and violence is not all terrorism related. And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world. The blasts struck in rapid succession during rush hour on two parallel and adjacent streets in a poor district of the city. Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam. Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building. Many of those youths, identified as coming in from the poor suburbs, battled the police, burned cars and smashed store windows. The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor with an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people. The mistake led the government to waive thousands of pounds in stamp duty in a well-to-do suburb instead of poor areas of Manchester. The church is growing most in poor places like Africa and Asia where infant mortality remains high. The only negative thing about this is that it only applies to the western world, as other parts of the world are too poor to invest money in similar projects. The place was very poor, the bedroom being upstairs and accessible only by a ladder. They both laboured to earn enough to take a lease on a small farm at Gumeracha, near Adelaide, but the land was poor and the rainfall scant. A poor place to be when, as he expects, the negotiations begin some time after the next elections. I live in a poor state that does not allocate sufficient resources to education. 2Of a low or inferior standard or quality. many people are eating a very poor diet 很多人都吃得很差。 her work was poor 她干的活很糟糕。 Example sentencesExamples Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education. Information dissemination and knowledge of law are poor at this level. In a poor quality second half, the home side added another two goals. The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help. A local police official blamed shoddy construction and the poor quality of the cement. Even if the football is usually secondary, and poor quality. Ignatius Street was a particular problem area with the quality of lighting very poor at each end of it. Generally I think the police service is pretty poor at disseminating good practice. Property services, which were poor at the last inspection have improved little and remain unsatisfactory. Like Victor Agarwel, I am inclined to think councils are very poor at thinking all the issues through. If only 10 people apply you have to take all comers - those who will be good, mediocre, and poor at the job. Bedfordshire was rated weak by Government inspectors last year and poor at its previous inspection. Conditions were poor at the turn of the century and employment was at a low ebb. The council has been rated ‘fair’ the middle ranking on a scale that ranges from poor at one end to excellent on the other. Kitchens received were faulty or poor quality with damaged parts. The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best. Thai motorists have a new ally in the fight against poor vehicle quality and shoddy after-sales service. Hall is a lifelong resident of the valley, where poor air quality is second only to that of Los Angeles. The quality of the Parke Group Water Scheme is very poor at present and should not be used until further notices. But the Decatur plant is not the only facility cited for poor quality standards. Synonyms substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre abject, appalling, abysmal, atrocious, awful, terrible, dismal, dreadful, unsatisfactory, low-grade, second-rate, third-rate, jerry-built, shoddy, crude, tinny, trashy, rubbishy, miserable, wretched, lamentable, deplorable, pitiful, inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, execrable, frightful informal crummy, dire, bum, diabolical, rotten, sad, tatty, tenth-rate British informal ropy, duff, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, grotty US informal weak sauce vulgar slang crap, crappy archaic direful rare egregious 2.1poor in Deficient or lacking in. 缺乏的，缺少的，贫乏的 the water is poor in nutrients 这种水缺少营养物质。 Example sentencesExamples It doesn't matter how poor in quality the disciple may be: it matters only that he believe implicitly. The hospital had a good system in place to monitor risks but was poor in learning from the available information. To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness. If the legislature's hardware is poor in quality, its software is even worse. The reason why the bones were boiled for a long time was that it was believed the bones were poor in nutritive value. He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude. That's how I feel about most of Burton's work - great in concept, poor in execution. I bawled at the Guardian executive, because the reception is pretty poor in some parts of the Chilterns. We are not putting both these to good use as a result the fruits we are producing are poor in quality and less in quantum. Children and adults who excel in one area, such as math, are very poor in other areas. Iraq is relatively poor in species because of the arid nature of much of the country. Today, albeit poor in reception quality, I got to catch familiar faces reading news. Today, Israel is rich in material things but poor in others - the things of the mind. Synonyms deficient in, lacking (in), wanting (in), short of/on, low on, missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few/little … 2.2dated Used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself. 〈旧〉谦卑的，卑微的，卑下的 he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man 以鄙人之见，他更是一个英俊小生。 3attributive (of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy. （人）可怜的，值得同情的 they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip 他们询问了可怜的多萝西折断髋骨的情况。 Example sentencesExamples In spite of his less than friendly attitude toward the man, Carson couldn't help feeling some sympathy for the poor guy. I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing. And I pity the poor judge who's going to have to explain those words to a jury. Pity the poor guy who had to cut all the peats to keep that warm in the winter. I have the greatest sympathy for this poor woman in her tragic loss, but just think about it! I saw it's running until March next year and I pity the poor staff. I mean, I just pity poor William, what the hell that man is going to face as he comes in to open life. We have no shows of sympathy for the poor man trying to fit everything into 24 hours. She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath. The aging process had clearly not taken any pity on poor Judge Wykk at all. The manager instantly began to pity the poor man, but not too much and walked away. Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons. James knew very well what Ben wanted to test, and once again he felt a stab of pity for the poor girl. Pity those poor residents who put up with those conditions on a daily basis! And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date. Pity poor Kenneth Welsh, with the weaselly demeanor only a mother could love. Then lunchtimes: pity the poor teachers who had class last thing before lunch on a Friday. Pity the poor child who makes any kind of a drawing that has anything to do with firearms. What did this poor woman do to deserve a child like Geoff? Pity the poor man born in Glasgow's Shettleston, for example, who is not expected to make 65. Synonyms unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched Phrases (as) poor as a church mouse Extremely poor. 一贫如洗，贫困潦倒 Example sentencesExamples Basically, here is my deal: I just graduated from law school (I went to Pitt) and I am as poor as a church mouse, as I have yet to find a ‘real’ job, and I am trying to pay some horrid student loans. The local officials (who secured and guaranteed the loan) have long been replaced and the farmers are as poor as church mice,’ Chen said. Everyone was as poor as church mice but you enjoyed life without material things. Is it just sour grapes because I'm poor as a church mouse and live half a planet away from all the action? They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice. For Louis Hawthorne had been written out of his father's will and was, at that time, as poor as a church mouse. Whilst carving the oak beam he remarked, ‘I am as poor as a church mouse.’ The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse. He also learns that his brother is very well off and confides in the priest that he is unsure how his brother will receive him since he is as poor as a church mouse now. Synonyms poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless poor little rich boy (or girl) A wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment. 常用来表示含嘲弄语气的同情可怜的小富哥（或妹） Example sentencesExamples And god, I wanted to be the poor little rich girl. In response to both mentalities, however, America turns out to be a poor little rich girl who needs nothing more than the real virility of Australia or the real domesticity of England. I played Aleisha Smiler, who was more or less a poor little rich girl. My favourite is Shannon, the poor little rich girl (yet to get her own backstory). Its titular heroine is a poor little rich girl, looking for, and ostensibly finding, Mr Right in Vienna during the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire. After Jemima's decision to complain publicly about her lifestyle, it is easy to brand her a poor little rich girl. Were her actions not described with such painful clarity and raw truthfulness, it would be easy to dismiss Millie and her angst as the story of another poor little rich girl, playing a dangerous game in a world where she doesn't belong. People may have thought it seemed like it was complaining on our parts - because people looked at us like poor little rich girls who have all this money and are celebrities and yet are complaining about not getting more work. And then there's Hadley, the quintessential poor little rich girl, happy in her material world but vacant everywhere else. I have my usual conflicting beliefs with the ‘poor little rich boys ' part. the poor man's — An inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified. 劣质的（或更便宜的）替代品 corduroy has always been the poor man's velvet 灯芯绒一直是天鹅绒的便宜替代品。 Example sentencesExamples If I ever achieve my destiny as the poor man's Stephen Fry, I am so going to do that. ‘He was not the poor man's Bruce Springsteen,’ says Janet Hackel. Steven Seagal is like the poor man's Sylvester Stallone. I guess in a way you could think of Dante as the poor man's Tim Burton. It's never good when you're the poor man's Knicks. Now Dundee is striking back against its image as the poor man's Smolensk. It may be seen by some as the poor man's Ferrari, but it is nonetheless one to feel extremely passionate about. Yes, somehow the poor man's Adrian Juste has wound up on - what is by default - the coolest radio station on ‘proper’ radio. Meanwhile in Virginia, the USA take on the International team in the poor man's Ryder Cup Spirit of the Dance was originally regarded as the poor man's Riverdance but has now been seen by more than 30 million people. Pardon the pun, but I'm what you'd call the poor man's Kevin Bacon. poor relation A person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group. 无名小卒，微不足道的人（或东西） for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media 多年来收音机一直是媒体中微不足道的一种传播形式。 Example sentencesExamples Their counterparts in Scotland and Wales are once again the poor relations, averaging £61,928 for Scottish GPs and £65,014 for Welsh ones. According to the survey, livestock farmers remain the poor relations, with sheep farmers' incomes up just 4% to an average €12,900 per annum. Press see authors as poor relations of Bollywood but most authors don't see themselves like that,’ Rana Dasgupta says. It is becoming clearer too that poorer countries are no longer prepared to be the poor relations of the first world, as at the last round of talks in Cancun, Mexico, when 17 countries turned their backs on what was being proposed. Is it any wonder that many in this community believe that we are very much poor relations in health care provision? According to a source at the State Department, most Tier 3 countries are the ones that have poor relations with the U.S. government, such as North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. He said: ‘Our members are fed up with being the poor relations of the public sector and are determined to demonstrate that strength of feeling to our employer.’ He said despite having a seat at the table with the leaders of the world's richest nations, the African leaders will still be seen as what he calls poor relations crashing the party. One of the things I've always been is an evangelist and I've always felt that the applied arts are very much the poor relations of fine arts - painting, sculpture and architecture. He said: ‘I think the people of Mytholmroyd have felt to be treated like the poor relations of Hebden Bridge, which is an area of outstanding beauty.’ take a poor view of Regard with disapproval. 不喜欢，看不起 Heraclitus took a poor view of popular religion Example sentencesExamples Alan O'Brien rode his second winner, and his first in Ireland, when the Eddie Hales-trained Shuilan stayed on strongly in the bumper but the stewards took a poor view of the way the 19-year-old used his whip. Origin Middle English: from Old French poure, from Latin pauper. The Latin word for ‘poor’ pauper, is the base of pauper (early 16th century), poverty (Middle English), and poor. The phrase poor as a church mouse, or ‘extremely poor’, comes from the notion that a church mouse must be particularly deprived as it does not have the opportunity to find pickings from a kitchen or larder, and there are few crumbs to be found in a well-swept church. You sometimes hear a wealthy young person whose money appears to bring them no happiness described as poor little rich girl (or boy). Though he did not coin the phrase, Noël Coward certainly popularized it with his 1925 song ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’. Rhymes abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your adj.1 phr. Definition of poor in US English: poor adjective 1Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society. 穷的，贫穷的，贫困的 people who were too poor to afford a telephone 穷得买不起电话的人。 the gap between the rich and the poor has widened 贫富差距已经拉大。 Example sentencesExamples For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap. Today the national society serves the poor with its free soup kitchens and numerous forms of humanitarian relief. It is unrealistic to ask rich students to love the spirit of poverty and live as the poor. The essays are written by women who either grew up poor or are currently living in poverty. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Bavaria was a mostly agrarian society and a poor one at that. She lives in housing for poor seniors and cannot afford to repair her own vehicle, which she says broke down four years ago. After retirement, he is still serving the society, especially the poor. Excuse me, but wouldn't that involve transferring wealth from rich individuals and societies to the poor? Without a well-educated populace we are a poor and intellectually bankrupt society. In our developing, but poor and deprived, society it is the task of the government to provide the means of education. You ask me why we cannot spend all our money to feed the poor and make them live a better life instead of going for Hajj. For six years he lived among the poor along the Code River in Yogyakarta, and built a Community Centre for them. Narayana is a poor radio mechanic who lives in Vittal, Karnataka, and has a four-member family. The nun wrote that she had been fearful of having to live among the poor, but that Christ reminded her that she had always said He could do with her as He pleased. The reforms would widen the gap between rich and poor, creating a society of haves and have-nots. Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference. Perhaps the poor, who live in adobe houses, ran amok with automatic dishwashers. The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations. In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society. The purpose and character of the festival We Are One Family is to unite orphans who have been living in poor conditions. Tarleton says he lives poor for political reasons: he doesn't pay income tax. Synonyms poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless 1.1 (of a place) inhabited by people without sufficient money. （地方）穷人住的，贫苦的 a poor area with run-down movie theaters and overcrowded schools Example sentencesExamples The mistake led the government to waive thousands of pounds in stamp duty in a well-to-do suburb instead of poor areas of Manchester. A stronger United Nations is needed to counter insurgency and warlordism in the poor regions of the world as well as the richer ones. A poor place to be when, as he expects, the negotiations begin some time after the next elections. Our first impressions were that it seemed a very run-down and poor city with an abundance of homeless people. The blasts struck in rapid succession during rush hour on two parallel and adjacent streets in a poor district of the city. The only negative thing about this is that it only applies to the western world, as other parts of the world are too poor to invest money in similar projects. Many of those youths, identified as coming in from the poor suburbs, battled the police, burned cars and smashed store windows. And similar reasons are why abortion and childcare haven't penetrated this Far East in a very poor area of the world. The place was poor beyond the conceptions of a privileged 21 st-century Westerner. The main poor site in the town was at the Industrial Estate off Monean Junction. The church is growing most in poor places like Africa and Asia where infant mortality remains high. Beknazarov represented the remote constituency of Aksy district, a poor region in the south of the country. The place was very poor, the bedroom being upstairs and accessible only by a ladder. I live in a poor state that does not allocate sufficient resources to education. India is not the only poor place on earth and violence is not all terrorism related. For one thing, their kids will get all the money, and the poor world will get diddly-squat. They both laboured to earn enough to take a lease on a small farm at Gumeracha, near Adelaide, but the land was poor and the rainfall scant. The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor with an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Whether a place is poor or well-off depends not on the size of the town government building. Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam. 2Worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality. 糟糕的，不理想的；差的，劣的 many people are eating a very poor diet 很多人都吃得很差。 her work was poor 她干的活很糟糕。 Example sentencesExamples But the Decatur plant is not the only facility cited for poor quality standards. Smoking, poor diet quality and obesity are all clear markers of social disadvantage and a lack of education. Information dissemination and knowledge of law are poor at this level. The quality of the Parke Group Water Scheme is very poor at present and should not be used until further notices. The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help. Even if the football is usually secondary, and poor quality. Property services, which were poor at the last inspection have improved little and remain unsatisfactory. Bedfordshire was rated weak by Government inspectors last year and poor at its previous inspection. Like Victor Agarwel, I am inclined to think councils are very poor at thinking all the issues through. Thai motorists have a new ally in the fight against poor vehicle quality and shoddy after-sales service. If only 10 people apply you have to take all comers - those who will be good, mediocre, and poor at the job. Hall is a lifelong resident of the valley, where poor air quality is second only to that of Los Angeles. In a poor quality second half, the home side added another two goals. The council has been rated ‘fair’ the middle ranking on a scale that ranges from poor at one end to excellent on the other. Ignatius Street was a particular problem area with the quality of lighting very poor at each end of it. Conditions were poor at the turn of the century and employment was at a low ebb. Kitchens received were faulty or poor quality with damaged parts. The instruments trudge along at a snail's pace and the recording quality is poor at best. A local police official blamed shoddy construction and the poor quality of the cement. Generally I think the police service is pretty poor at disseminating good practice. Synonyms substandard, below standard, below par, bad, deficient, defective, faulty, imperfect, inferior, mediocre 2.1poor inpredicative Deficient or lacking in. 缺乏的，缺少的，贫乏的 the water is poor in nutrients 这种水缺少营养物质。 Example sentencesExamples Children and adults who excel in one area, such as math, are very poor in other areas. It doesn't matter how poor in quality the disciple may be: it matters only that he believe implicitly. The hospital had a good system in place to monitor risks but was poor in learning from the available information. I bawled at the Guardian executive, because the reception is pretty poor in some parts of the Chilterns. That's how I feel about most of Burton's work - great in concept, poor in execution. We are not putting both these to good use as a result the fruits we are producing are poor in quality and less in quantum. Today, Israel is rich in material things but poor in others - the things of the mind. To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge one spiritual poverty and brokenness. He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude. Iraq is relatively poor in species because of the arid nature of much of the country. The reason why the bones were boiled for a long time was that it was believed the bones were poor in nutritive value. Today, albeit poor in reception quality, I got to catch familiar faces reading news. If the legislature's hardware is poor in quality, its software is even worse. Synonyms deficient in, lacking, lacking in, wanting, wanting in, short of, short on, low on, missing, with an insufficiency of, with too few …, with too little … 2.2dated Used ironically to deprecate something belonging to or offered by oneself. 〈旧〉谦卑的，卑微的，卑下的 he is, in my poor opinion, a more handsome young man 以鄙人之见，他更是一个英俊小生。 3attributive (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy. （人）可怜的，值得同情的 they inquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip 他们询问了可怜的多萝西折断髋骨的情况。 Example sentencesExamples James knew very well what Ben wanted to test, and once again he felt a stab of pity for the poor girl. Pity poor Kenneth Welsh, with the weaselly demeanor only a mother could love. Pity those poor residents who put up with those conditions on a daily basis! I pitied the poor fellow, he was so deeply in earnest; but all the same I could not help laughing. She pitied the poor scientist who'd caught the major part of his wrath. Pity the poor man born in Glasgow's Shettleston, for example, who is not expected to make 65. The aging process had clearly not taken any pity on poor Judge Wykk at all. Pity the poor child who makes any kind of a drawing that has anything to do with firearms. We have no shows of sympathy for the poor man trying to fit everything into 24 hours. What did this poor woman do to deserve a child like Geoff? In spite of his less than friendly attitude toward the man, Carson couldn't help feeling some sympathy for the poor guy. I saw it's running until March next year and I pity the poor staff. Should Munster lose, pity the poor man who moved the game to the capital purely for financial reasons. I have the greatest sympathy for this poor woman in her tragic loss, but just think about it! Then lunchtimes: pity the poor teachers who had class last thing before lunch on a Friday. The manager instantly began to pity the poor man, but not too much and walked away. And I couldn't help but pity the poor chap who finds himself grappling with one of these after a night out on the sauce with his hot date. I mean, I just pity poor William, what the hell that man is going to face as he comes in to open life. And I pity the poor judge who's going to have to explain those words to a jury. Pity the poor guy who had to cut all the peats to keep that warm in the winter. Synonyms unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, unhappy, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, pitiable, pitiful, wretched Phrases (as) poor as a church mouse Extremely poor. 一贫如洗，贫困潦倒 Example sentencesExamples Is it just sour grapes because I'm poor as a church mouse and live half a planet away from all the action? Basically, here is my deal: I just graduated from law school (I went to Pitt) and I am as poor as a church mouse, as I have yet to find a ‘real’ job, and I am trying to pay some horrid student loans. They have created a public debt of such appalling magnitude that our descendants, for whom we had such high hopes, will come into this world as poor as church mice. For Louis Hawthorne had been written out of his father's will and was, at that time, as poor as a church mouse. The local officials (who secured and guaranteed the loan) have long been replaced and the farmers are as poor as church mice,’ Chen said. The Mouseman, as he was known, adopted the mouse motif after overhearing a craftsman speaking of being as poor as a church mouse. Whilst carving the oak beam he remarked, ‘I am as poor as a church mouse.’ Everyone was as poor as church mice but you enjoyed life without material things. He also learns that his brother is very well off and confides in the priest that he is unsure how his brother will receive him since he is as poor as a church mouse now. Synonyms poverty-stricken, impoverished, necessitous, beggarly, in penury, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, in need, in want, badly off, low-paid, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, destitute, hard up, short of money, on one's beam-ends, unable to make ends meet, underprivileged, deprived, penniless, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, moneyless poor little rich boy (or girl) A wealthy young person whose money brings them no contentment (often used as an expression of mock sympathy). 常用来表示含嘲弄语气的同情可怜的小富哥（或妹） Example sentencesExamples Its titular heroine is a poor little rich girl, looking for, and ostensibly finding, Mr Right in Vienna during the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire. I have my usual conflicting beliefs with the ‘poor little rich boys ' part. And then there's Hadley, the quintessential poor little rich girl, happy in her material world but vacant everywhere else. My favourite is Shannon, the poor little rich girl (yet to get her own backstory). People may have thought it seemed like it was complaining on our parts - because people looked at us like poor little rich girls who have all this money and are celebrities and yet are complaining about not getting more work. And god, I wanted to be the poor little rich girl. In response to both mentalities, however, America turns out to be a poor little rich girl who needs nothing more than the real virility of Australia or the real domesticity of England. I played Aleisha Smiler, who was more or less a poor little rich girl. After Jemima's decision to complain publicly about her lifestyle, it is easy to brand her a poor little rich girl. Were her actions not described with such painful clarity and raw truthfulness, it would be easy to dismiss Millie and her angst as the story of another poor little rich girl, playing a dangerous game in a world where she doesn't belong. the poor man's — An inferior or cheaper substitute for the thing specified. 劣质的（或更便宜的）替代品 corduroy has always been the poor man's velvet 灯芯绒一直是天鹅绒的便宜替代品。 Example sentencesExamples It may be seen by some as the poor man's Ferrari, but it is nonetheless one to feel extremely passionate about. It's never good when you're the poor man's Knicks. I guess in a way you could think of Dante as the poor man's Tim Burton. Yes, somehow the poor man's Adrian Juste has wound up on - what is by default - the coolest radio station on ‘proper’ radio. ‘He was not the poor man's Bruce Springsteen,’ says Janet Hackel. Now Dundee is striking back against its image as the poor man's Smolensk. If I ever achieve my destiny as the poor man's Stephen Fry, I am so going to do that. Spirit of the Dance was originally regarded as the poor man's Riverdance but has now been seen by more than 30 million people. Pardon the pun, but I'm what you'd call the poor man's Kevin Bacon. Meanwhile in Virginia, the USA take on the International team in the poor man's Ryder Cup Steven Seagal is like the poor man's Sylvester Stallone. poor relation A person or thing that is considered inferior or subordinate to others of the same type or group. 无名小卒，微不足道的人（或东西） for many years radio has been the poor relation of the media 多年来收音机一直是媒体中微不足道的一种传播形式。 Example sentencesExamples According to the survey, livestock farmers remain the poor relations, with sheep farmers' incomes up just 4% to an average €12,900 per annum. He said: ‘Our members are fed up with being the poor relations of the public sector and are determined to demonstrate that strength of feeling to our employer.’ He said: ‘I think the people of Mytholmroyd have felt to be treated like the poor relations of Hebden Bridge, which is an area of outstanding beauty.’ Is it any wonder that many in this community believe that we are very much poor relations in health care provision? Press see authors as poor relations of Bollywood but most authors don't see themselves like that,’ Rana Dasgupta says. One of the things I've always been is an evangelist and I've always felt that the applied arts are very much the poor relations of fine arts - painting, sculpture and architecture. He said despite having a seat at the table with the leaders of the world's richest nations, the African leaders will still be seen as what he calls poor relations crashing the party. According to a source at the State Department, most Tier 3 countries are the ones that have poor relations with the U.S. government, such as North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela. It is becoming clearer too that poorer countries are no longer prepared to be the poor relations of the first world, as at the last round of talks in Cancun, Mexico, when 17 countries turned their backs on what was being proposed. Their counterparts in Scotland and Wales are once again the poor relations, averaging £61,928 for Scottish GPs and £65,014 for Welsh ones. take a poor view of Regard with disfavor or disapproval. 不喜欢，看不起 Example sentencesExamples Alan O'Brien rode his second winner, and his first in Ireland, when the Eddie Hales-trained Shuilan stayed on strongly in the bumper but the stewards took a poor view of the way the 19-year-old used his whip. Origin Middle English: from Old French poure, from Latin pauper. adj.1 phr.
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