[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]贫穷;贫困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。
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[N-SING 单数名词]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.
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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
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pov·erty/ˈpɒvəti; NAmEˈpɑːvərti/noun1[uncountable ]the state of being poor 贫穷;贫困◆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。☞collocationsat
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2[uncountable , singular ]a lack of sth; poor quality 贫乏;短缺;劣质◆There is a poverty of colour in her work.她的作品缺乏色彩。pov·erty/ˈpɒvəti; NAmEˈpɑːvərti/
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povertypov‧er‧ty /ˈpɒvəti $ ˈpɑːvərti/ ●●○W3 noun
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1[uncountable] the situation or experience of being poor → poor, impoverished: Millions of elderly people live in poverty. We need an effective strategy to fight poverty. continued efforts to alleviate poverty and raise living standards scenes of abject poverty the causes of urban poverty2the poverty line (also the poverty level American English) the income below which a person or a family is officially considered to be very poor and in need of help: 20% of the population now live below the poverty line.3the poverty trap a situation in which a poor person without a job cannot afford to take a low-paying job because they would lose the money they receive from the government4[singular, uncountable] formal a lack of a particular qualitypoverty of The novel shows a surprising poverty of imagination.COLLOCATIONSverbslive in poverty· Half the world is living in poverty.grow up in poverty· No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.die in poverty· His art was not appreciated and he died in poverty.be reduced to poverty (=become very poor)· By the end of the war, millions of people had been reduced to poverty.fight/combat poverty (=take action to get rid of poverty)· The money should be spent on fighting poverty.tackle poverty (=take action to reduce the amount of poverty)· Our priority is to tackle poverty and global inequality.reduce poverty (=reduce the amount of poverty)· More must be done to reduce child poverty.alleviate/relieve poverty formal (=make it less severe)· What has the West done to alleviate poverty in the world?ADJECTIVES/NOUN + povertyextreme/severe poverty· They live in conditions of extreme poverty.abject/grinding/dire poverty (=extremely severe)· He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.relative poverty (=when someone is poor compared with someone else)· the relative poverty of the southern statesworld poverty· They campaigned for an end to world poverty.urban/rural poverty· People come to the capital seeking to escape rural poverty.child poverty· There is increasing child poverty in our country.
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