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poor NO MONEYHpC:5, $pJradj-er, -est having little money and/or few possessions贫穷的，穷困的，贫乏的How can they be poor if they have a car and a big house like that?他们有汽车，有那么大的一所房子，怎么会穷呢?Most of these people are desperately poor.这些人中的绝大多数一贫如洗。He came from a poor immigrant family and grew up in a poor area of London.他生于一个贫穷的移民家庭，在伦敦的贫民区长大。Most of the world's poorest countries are in Africa.世界上大多数最贫穷的国家在非洲。(fig.) Unfortunately, Iceland is poor in (= has few) natural resources.很不幸，冰岛自然资源贫乏。If you describe one thing, place or person as the poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to but less important than the other, and that people do not think it is so valuable.同类中较次者The air force and navy were modernised but the army, very much the poor relation, was not.空军和海军都已实现了现代化，陆军相比之下却没有。"The rich man in his castle / The poor man at his gate" (from the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful by Mrs C. Alexander, 1848)“富人住在城堡里，穷人蹲在他的门口”(摘自C·亚历山大夫人的赞美诗《万物明亮美丽》)"It's the same the whole world over, / Ain't it all a blooming shame, / It's the rich that get the pleasure, / It's the poor that get the blame" (from the song She was Poor, but she was Honest, 1915)“全世界都一样，/这不是一个莫大的耻辱吗?/只有富人才有欢乐，/穷人则遭责难” 摘自歌曲“她很穷，但她很诚实”)"I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better" (believed to have been said by Sophie Tucker, 1884-1966)“我穷过，我也富过。还是富好”据信为索菲·塔克所说)
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