poverty

名词 poverty:

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
   同义词：poorness, impoverishment

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. The old man has been soured by poverty.
   那老人因贫困而变得乖戾了。
5. 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。
6. The man lived in poverty after his unemployment.
   这人失业后就生活在贫困之中。

pov.er.ty

n.（名词）
The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
贫穷：穷的状况；缺乏获取物质生活必需品及需求的手段
Deficiency in amount; scantiness:
不足：数量的缺乏；匮乏：
例句：
.the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul.(Scott Turow)
.精神的贫乏使她的灵魂变得空虚.(斯科特·图罗)

Unproductiveness; infertility:
贫瘠；不孕：
例句：
the poverty of the soil.
土壤的贫瘠

Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
（财产的）放弃：作为宗教会社成员，放弃拥有财产之权

来源：
Middle English poverte
中古英语 poverte
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin paupert3s
源自 拉丁语 paupert3s
from pauper [poor] * see pau-
源自 pauper [贫穷的] *参见 pau-