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单词 poverty
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poverty
(pɒvəʳti )
1. uncountable noun B2
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.
...people living in absolute poverty.
Garvey died in loneliness and poverty.
2. singular noun
You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor. [formal]
Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. [+ of]
...a poverty of ideas.
Synonyms: scarcity, lack, absence, want  
Quotations:
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is povertyGeorge Bernard ShawMajor Barbara
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poorJames BaldwinNobody Knows My Name
Give me not poverty lest I stealDaniel DefoeReview (later incorporated into Moll Flanders)
The want of money is the root of all evilSamuel ButlerErewhon
No man should commend poverty unless he is poorSaint Bernard
Poverty is not a crime
Collocations:
abject poverty
Outside the small, vibrant city centre there were signs of abject poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He was born into abject poverty but he was driven to make a difference.
The Sun (2016)
Millions more were injured or reduced to abject poverty.
The Sun (2012)
address poverty
All the political parties have failed fully to address such poverty in the fourth largest economy in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It added that there was little financial incentive at the moment for town halls to address poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Measures to address fuel poverty will be critical.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
child poverty
Government figures show that child poverty now stands at 2.8 million, which represents 22 per cent of all children in the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Fair trade and child poverty are causes that will always need champions and will always find them.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The Government has missed the first target in its bid to end child poverty.
The Sun (2006)
chronic poverty
If exposed to traumas such as domestic violence or chronic poverty, the already vulnerable child will be further disadvantaged.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Little overseas aid makes it this far despite chronic poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Women and children usually bear the brunt of chronic poverty - in circumstances that defy belief.
The Sun (2008)
combat poverty
An extra 125 million over three years was pledged to combat child poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The answer suggests some ways we might combat poverty.
Christianity Today (2000)
Why did they spend so much money in the attempt when the cash could have been used to combat poverty?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
dire poverty
The evidence shows that dire poverty makes people unhappy, but at the other extreme, great wealth has little effect on subjective wellbeing.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Particularly in the cities, bad times forced many unskilled laborers and their families into dire poverty.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
Welfare handouts were designed as a safety net against dire poverty.
The Sun (2012)
end poverty
Now, that's the way to end child poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
What should we do to end poverty?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is part of a huge package of measures aimed at ending poverty and boosting the lives of poor families.
The Sun (2016)
escape poverty
He understands the power education and training can have in helping people to escape poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
While the credits have helped increasing numbers of children to escape poverty, the number requiring such help has also risen sharply.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Families who lose the main provider of their income struggle to escape poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
extreme poverty
For the benefit of humanity, let us all work together to end extreme poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A far smaller proportion of the global population lives in extreme poverty than at any time in human history, and for the first time it is within our power to end it altogether.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Her case proves that there is an alternative way to deal with extreme poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
fight poverty
When we sell products, the money doesn't go to the shareholders of the company, it goes to fight poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Charities like Oxfam exist to fight poverty, and it is their duty to talk about these issues.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Many have to fight extreme poverty and survive war-torn countries.
The Sun (2010)
flee poverty
About 300,000 migrants and refugees, fleeing poverty or war, have made the perilous sea crossing to Europe this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Irish immigrants fleeing poverty and famine began arriving in the early 1800s.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He writes that environmental degradation causes poverty and migration, but people fleeing poverty are unprotected under international law.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
global poverty
They want to campaign on issues central to their purpose - tackling the root causes of global poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Marxist theories claim that global poverty is the result of exploitation of poor nations by wealthy ones.
Sociology (1995)
Women suffer particularly in terms of global poverty.
Sociology (1995)
grinding poverty
I have seen little that says anything other than that the grinding poverty in which people live is the cause of a lot of the problems we face.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It is often defined by images of street children and grinding poverty.
The Sun (2012)
In the 1930s he suffered from grinding poverty.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
measure poverty
We do need to change the way we measure poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
If we measure poverty or inequality solely by material factors we risk distorting our priorities.
Times, Sunday Times
He produced several important reports on poverty and developed new methods for measuring poverty and inequality.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's high in terms of measuring poverty.
Globe and Mail
Measuring poverty by an absolute threshold has the advantage of applying the same standard across different locations and time periods: it makes comparisons easier.
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plead poverty
With players being paid millions, the game can hardly plead poverty.
The Sun (2009)
Banks pleaded poverty again last night as the Chancellor raised the levy on their profits.
The Sun (2011)
Suddenly, a sport that defines itself by means of wealth is pleading poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
poverty rate
The socioeconomic characteristics include poverty rate, public assistance income, labor force participation rate, language ability and year of entry for noncitizens.
Christianity Today
Essential services would degrade, and authority employees would lose their salaries, with a 'dramatic rise in the poverty rate'.
Times, Sunday Times
Literacy rates have changed little, income inequality has worsened and the poverty rate remains above 30 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
It presided over economic expansion and reduced the poverty rate from 40 per cent to 14 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
The poverty rate climbed from 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million people, in 2008.
Houston Chronicle
poverty reduction
In most areas, save for poverty reduction, there has been real progress.
Times,Sunday Times
A smaller budget that had a clear focus on poverty reduction, by directly improving people's livelihoods, could be more transformative.
Times, Sunday Times
He also points to high economic growth, poverty reduction and the success in lowering inflation.
Times, Sunday Times
The prime minister, 47, plans to campaign on the environment, job creation and poverty reduction.
Times, Sunday Times
These range from poverty reduction policy and practice to the study of infectious diseases.
Times, Sunday Times
poverty threshold
The individual-level working poverty rate calculates the percentage of all workers whose incomes fall below the poverty threshold.
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A poverty threshold relies on a quantitative, or purely numbers-based, measure of income.
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In several countries, those living below the dollar-per-day poverty threshold declined.
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Many households rise above or fall below the poverty threshold, depending on the employment status of household members.
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For a family of four in 2010, the extreme poverty threshold was approximately $11,000, or less than $3,000 per person.
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poverty wages
The union said that workers were existing on poverty wages and zero-hours contracts, and job vacancies were causing huge problems for employers.
Times,Sunday Times
The union claimed that the ship was paying poverty wages and was 'laden with rockets and explosives'.
Times, Sunday Times
She was widowed at 22 and worked for poverty wages as a sweeper.
Times, Sunday Times
They receive poverty wages, regularly faint in stifling conditions and are denied loo breaks.
The Sun
reduce poverty
We need to think again about what would be most effective in reducing poverty.
The Sun (2012)
Parents and teachers must become better role models to help reduce child poverty, says a government minister.
The Sun (2013)
The government is committed to reducing global poverty: the aid budget will be protected.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
relative poverty
One key indicator was the figure for relative poverty, which was deemed to be harmful independently of any of the other findings in the report.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was an early exponent of the notion of relative poverty - defining poverty in terms of the society in which an individual lives.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Other statistics in the report include that 28 per cent of children in lone parent households live in relative poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
rural poverty
The documentary series returns with an insight into rural poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
Amid the rural poverty, however, there was always music.
Times, Sunday Times
We hear much less than we should about rural poverty.
Times,Sunday Times
This sketch of the past 10,000 years of human history puts the problem of rural poverty into a new perspective.
Times, Sunday Times
Take the question of rural poverty.
Christianity Today
severe poverty
Social mobility has actually decreased in recent years, while the number of people in severe poverty has increased.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the campaigns have prompted action to alleviate severe poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
There are 900,000 more people living in severe poverty than there were in 1997.
Times, Sunday Times
But we should remember that many have nothing to look forward to but failing health and, now, severe poverty.
The Sun
His youth was spent in severe poverty and difficulty on the reserve.
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spiritual poverty
There are different kinds of poverty, including spiritual poverty, relational poverty, and emotional poverty.
Christianity Today
Those who enter a country to alleviate its material poverty should separate that mission from what they take to be its spiritual poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
It was not a theological error that ignited his anger but a spiritual poverty.
Christianity Today
But spiritual poverty and blindness had dire implications of their own.
Christianity Today
At first rejected, he soon becomes their jester, as well as a mirror in which they can see around their material wealth to their spiritual poverty.
Globe and Mail
tackle poverty
The foundation will set out a comprehensive plan next month to tackle poverty in the UK, setting out what government, businesses and individuals can do to support families.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We do that by tackling poverty's causes as well as its symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It also has a remit to tackle global poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
terrible poverty
They witnessed terrible poverty and the deadly effects of a recent mudslide that had buried an entire village.
Times, Sunday Times
In many instances, ghettos were places of terrible poverty and during periods of population growth, ghettos had narrow streets and small, crowded houses.
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Nearly two-thirds of the area's residents were suffering in terrible poverty.
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urban poverty
During my time in Boston, I became interested in learning about urban poverty and socioeconomic injustice.
Christianity Today (2000)
The government simply lacks the money to deal effectively with the country's massive problems of unemployment and urban poverty.
Sociology (1995)
Rural poverty has been replaced by massive urban poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
widespread poverty
The economy, despite widespread poverty and joblessness, is set to expand by 7% this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Population growth consumed immense resources and produced widespread poverty.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
His images aim to capture a nation that remains proud of its history, language and culture despite political instability and widespread poverty.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Translations:
Chinese: 贫穷
Japanese: 貧困
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