poverty
🇬🇧/ˈpɒvəti/ 🇺🇸/ˈpɑːvərti/📚 2354 205 3四级六级考研托福雅思Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. 贫穷(live in poverty)
noun [抽象名词]贫穷，贫困；<正式>贫乏，低劣；个人财产权的放弃（作为宗教誓约的一部分）
You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor.
贫乏
- poverty 出现在下面的课文中
- Lesson 21 Daniel Mendoza poverty 名词: 贫困
- Lesson 45 The power of the press
- Lesson 3 Matterhorn man
pover(音似power， 动力) ＋ ty → 贫穷是向上的动力 → 贫穷， 贫困
单词造句:
- 网友用“Poverty”造句精选
- According to World Bank figures, 41 percent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty. 根据世界银行的统计数字，41％的巴西人生活在极度贫困之中。
- ...a poverty of ideas. …思想的贫乏。
- He ended his days in poverty. 他在贫穷中度过余生。
- It's horrifying to see such poverty. 看到这种贫困状况令人震惊。
n.贫乏，低劣
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
一百年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣的汪洋大海之中的一座孤岛上，那座孤岛贫瘠荒凉。