poverty
['pɔvəti]
n.贫困, 贫乏, 劣质
例句与用法:
Although she was poor, she was living in genteel poverty.
尽管她贫穷,但她总想装出上流社会阶层的样子。
The novel is a searing indictment of urban poverty.
这部小说是对城市贫困的震撼心灵的控诉。
People in this area were ground down by hunger and poverty.
这个地区的人们受着饥饿和贫穷的折磨。
The old man has been soured by poverty.
那老人因贫困而变得乖戾了。
The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
政府发誓要进行一场消灭贫穷和疾病的斗争。
The man lived in poverty after his unemployment.
这人失业后就生活在贫困之中。
n.[U]
1. 贫穷, 贫困
His family lives below the poverty line.
他的一家生活极端艰苦。
He lived in poverty.
他生活贫穷。
2. 贫乏, 缺少[S1][(+of/in)]
The article shows a poverty of imagination.
这篇文章显得缺乏想像力。
His later stories are not interesting because of their poverty of imagination.
他后来写的故事因为缺乏想像力而枯燥乏味。
3. 不毛, 贫瘠
4. 虚弱
poverty
同义词:
indigence | destitution | penury | need | dearth | lack | distress | paucity | scarcity | neediness | shortage | privation | insufficiency | scarceness | want | impoverishment | poorness | necessitousness | depletion | absence | impecuniousness | straits | pennilessness | difficulties | meagreness | beggary | shortness | scantiness | starvation | bareness | exiguity | pauperism | scantness | hunger | homelessness | necessity | hardship | impecuniosity | deficiency | financial distress | short supply | supply | short | bare | narrow | cupboard | existence | hand-to-mouth | financial |
反义词:
词义辨析:
同义:
n.贫穷, 贫困; 穷困; 困难; 饥饿
indigence
penury
impoverishment
impecuniousness
neediness
necessitousness
privation
destitution
pennilessness
beggary
pauperism
distress
difficulties
straits
narrow straits
starvation
hunger
bare cupboard
poorness
financial distress
hand-to-mouth existence
homelessness
n.缺少, 不足, 耗尽, 空
lack
want
absence
dearth
paucity
scarcity
short supply
shortage
depletion
need
insufficiency
n.贫乏; 空乏
meagreness
scarceness
scantiness
scantness
exiguity
shortness
bareness
同义参见:
necessity
反义:
n.贫穷; 贫乏; 贫瘠
richness
wealth
abundance
affluence
poverty['pɔvəti]n.1.■贫困,贫穷2.■贫乏;缺少,不足;贫瘠;少量3.■(营养不良等造成的)虚弱,瘦弱,低劣近义词indigencepenury反义词wealthaffluenceabject poverty一贫如洗,赤贫(as) witness someone's poverty某人的贫困足以证明live in genteel poverty穷而摆阔,过着无力支撑的阔气生活Poverty is no sin.[谚语]贫非罪。Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is.[谚语]贫非耻,耻贫乃耻。Poverty makes (或acquaints men with) strange bedfellows.[谚语]同病相怜;难中不择友。
povertypoverty[ˈpɔvəti]n.1.■贫穷[困]2.■缺少[乏], 贫乏, 不足(of, in); (土地的)贫瘠不毛3.■虚弱; 低劣
继承用法poverty-strikenadj.1.■极度贫穷[乏]的
noun
- [mass noun]the state of being extremely poor
贫穷,贫困
thousands of families are living in abject poverty.
成千上万的家庭生活在赤贫中。
■the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount
(质量)低劣;(数量)贫乏,不足
the poverty of her imagination.
她想像力贫乏。
■the renunciation of the right to individual ownership of property as part of a religious vow
放弃个人财产权(作为宗教誓约的一部分)
- Middle English: from Old French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper 'poor'
poverty
名词 poverty:
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
同义词:poorness, impoverishment
poverty
■When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
[谚]贫穷进门来,爱情越窗飞。
■"See the curse of poverty, Nell," he said.
“你看这便是穷神作祟,耐儿,”他说着。
■Very soon 'Third World' came to connote poverty.
“第三世界”一词很快就带有了贫穷这个含义。
■Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
一、消除极度贫穷和饥荒。
■Some students quit school due to poverty.
一些学生因贫困而辍学。
■Some native Americans are still living in poverty.
一些美洲土人仍然生活在贫困之中。
■Lack of population control can result in poverty.
不进行人口控制会造成贫穷。
■It is hard to contend with poverty.
与贫穷奋斗是很困难的
■Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.
世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。
■To break out of the poverty trap they need help from the government.
为了摆脱贫困的处境,他们需要政府的帮助。
■One usually associates poverty with misery.
人们一说到贫穷,常常就联想起悲惨的境遇。
■The people enjoy freedom from poverty.
人们享有免於穷困的生活。
■From her youth up she had seen little but poverty.
从少年时代起,她所经历的尽是穷困的生活。
■Foreign travel opened his eyes to poverty for the first time.
他一到外国才初次见识到什麽是贫穷。
■He suffered from poverty all his life.
他一生受贫穷之苦。
■He had no idea of poverty in the concrete.
他不了解贫困的实际含义。
■He pleaded poverty in extenuation of (ie as an excuse for) the theft.
他以贫穷为藉口请求为他犯的偷窃罪从轻量刑。
■They were handicapped by (a) poverty of resources.
他们因资源短缺处境窘迫。
■They were ground down by poverty.
他们备受贫穷的折磨。
■They take great pleasure in reminding us of our poverty.
他们特别喜欢向我们提到我们穷。
■Their only common bond is their poverty.
他们的唯一共同纽带是贫穷。
■Their goal was to eradicate poverty.
他们的目标是消除贫困
■They asked him to pay for the damage but he pleaded poverty.
他们要他付损害赔偿金,但他藉口贫穷而不偿还。
■They are living in wretched poverty.
他们过着可怜的贫苦生活。
■They well knew what poverty and suffering were.
他们非常了解什么是贫穷和痛苦。
■He seemed doomed to live a life of poverty.
他似乎注定要过贫困的生活。
■He is doubly troubled, by illness and poverty.
他受着疾病和贫穷的双重困扰。
■His later stories are not interesting because of their poverty of imagination.
他后来写的故事因为缺乏想像力而枯燥乏味。
■He was frustrated by his poverty.
他因贫穷而灰心丧气。
■He lived the rest of her life in poverty.
他在贫困潦倒地度过余生。
■He grew up in an environment of poverty.
他在贫穷的环境中长大。
■He languished in poverty for years.
他多年挣扎在贫困之中。
■He dwelt in poverty most of his life.
他大半生生活贫困。
■He languished in poverty most of his life.
他大半辈子在贫穷中呻吟。
■He lived in poverty most of his life.
他大半辈子过的都是穷日子。
■He waged a long war against poverty.
他对贫穷作长期的挑战。
■Despite his poverty, he refuse to part with the family jewel.
他尽管贫穷,却不肯变卖家中的珠宝。
■He often alluded to his poverty .
他常提及他的穷困。
■He led a life of poverty for many years.
他度过了多年的贫困生活。
■He equates poverty with suffering.
他把贫穷和痛苦等同起来。
■He knew poverty and sorrow in his early life .
他早年经历过贫穷和不幸。
■He knew poverty and sorrow in his early days.
他早年饱尝过穷困和忧愁。
■He was arguing that poverty may be a blessing .
他曾一度主张贫穷或许是福。
■He was fated to die in poverty.
他注定在贫困中死去.
■He lives in a state of extreme poverty.
他生活在极度穷困中。
■His family lives below the poverty line.
他的一家生活极端艰苦。
■His extravagance lead him to poverty.
他的奢侈让他走向穷困。
■His ragged clothes were witness to his poverty.
他的破烂衣物可以证明他很贫穷.
■He is proof against corruption as witness his poverty.
他的贫困足以证明他是廉洁的。
■He lived in genteel poverty.
他虽穷却爱摆排场。