首页英语词典povertypoverty的意思

poverty

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近义词dearth depletion paucity insufficiency scarcity want supply shortage lack need short absence

反义词

n. 贫困；困难；缺少；低劣

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中文词源

poverty 贫穷，贫乏

来自古法语poverte,贫穷，贫乏，来自拉丁语pauper,穷的，少的，词源同poor.

英英释意

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

英文词源

poverty: poverty: see poor
poverty (n.): late 12c., from Old French poverte "poverty, misery, wretched condition" (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertatem (nominative paupertas) "poverty," from pauper "poor" (see poor (adj.)).
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. [Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables," 1862]
Poverty line attested from 1901; poverty trap from 1966; poverty-stricken from 1803.

考试真题

We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

A stable family is the best protection against poverty.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

Hello, today I’m going to talk about poverty.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

He deems it indispensable for combating global poverty.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

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.

1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America.

The poverty rate among women in the U.S. rose to 14.5% last year.

Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor (肮脏), disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers.

Huge obstacles It could, of course, also be that Obama's success helps people to forget that a disproportionate number of black Americans still live in poverty and face huge obstacles when trying to overcome these circumstances

And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

Hello, today I'm going to talk about poverty.

People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today's world.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

The Child Poverty Action Group says 9 out of 30 in every classroom fall below the poverty line.

The method of calculating the poverty line is different from country to country.

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.

Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty.

The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

In contrast, suppose you give a reasonable argument: that full-time workers should not have to live in poverty.

实用场景例句

conditions of abject/extreme poverty: 极度贫穷的状况

to alleviate/relieve poverty: 缓解 / 解除贫困

Many elderly people live in poverty .: 许多老年人生活于贫困之中。

There is a poverty of colour in her work.: 她的作品缺乏色彩。

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。

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

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.

Neither riches nor honours can corrupt him ; neither poverty nor humbleness can make him swerve from principle ; and neither threats nor forces can subdue him.: 富贵不能淫,贫贱不能移, 威武不能屈.

Being out of work causes poverty.: 失业导致贫困.

We must continue to war against poverty and disease.: 我们一定要继续同贫穷和疾病作斗争.

It's easy to be concerned with problems across the other side of the world and not see the poverty and unhappiness on your own doorstep.: 人们往往会关注世界另一端的问题,而忽略了家门口的贫困和不幸.

His whole life is a fight against poverty and unemployment.: 他的一生是与贫苦和失业斗争的一生.

Poverty and disease often go together.: 贫穷和疾病时常相伴而来.

He views boxing as his passport out of poverty.: 他把拳击看作自己摆脱贫困的手段.

Can we ever eliminate poverty from the world?: 我们有朝一日能消除世上的贫困吗 ?

Hunger is the accompaniment of poverty.: 饥饿是贫困的伴随物.

Arthur's books tend to poverty.: 亚瑟的书趋于单调乏味.

He brought himself to poverty.: 他陷入贫困之中.

the dehumanizing effects of poverty and squalor: 贫穷和肮脏的环境造成丧失人性的结果

A third of the population is living at or below the poverty line .: 三分之一的人口生活在贫困线或以下。

Poverty is a recurrent theme in her novels.: 贫穷是她的小说中惯有的主题。

the poverty and squalor of the slums: 贫民窟的贫穷和肮脏

Relative poverty, however, did not prevent Martin from equipping himself with an excellent education.: 然而，较为贫困的状况并没有阻止马丁让自己接受一流的教育。

Poverty and unemployment are frustratingly hard to tackle.: 贫穷和失业是难以解决的问题，这常常让人泄气。

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