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单词 underprivileged
释义
underprivilegedun‧der‧priv‧i‧leged /ˌʌndəˈprɪvəlɪdʒd◂ $ -dər-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • underprivileged youth
  • Princess Anne has done much to help underprivileged children all over the world.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • An ambitious bar association volunteer program for assisting the underprivileged quickly followed.
  • He pledged more funding for pregnant women's nutrition, childhood immunisations, and pre-school programmes for underprivileged children.
  • He supported orphanages and schools, underprivileged children went on camping holidays at his expense.
  • I believed that without a uniform we were more identified with the poor and underprivileged.
  • Infected rates are high among urban elites as well as among the poor and underprivileged.
  • Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Prize for her inventive work with underprivileged women and children.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorhaving fewer opportunities in life because of being poor
especially written disadvantaged people or groups have less chance of being successful in life because they are poor -- used especially in social or political contexts: · The university has announced plans to increase the number of students from minority and disadvantaged groups.· Quinn argued that an increase in the minimum wage would help the most disadvantaged Americans.
having less money and worse living conditions than other people in a society, and little chance of being successful in life: · Princess Anne has done much to help underprivileged children all over the world.
deprived people are very poor and are not able to find good jobs or get a good education. A deprived area is one in which people are poor and do not have many advantages: · Most mass demonstrations of this type happen in places where people are enormously deprived.· Children growing up in deprived areas are far more likely to turn to crime and drug abuse.· Girls from deprived backgrounds often become pregnant at an early age.
very poor, with worse living conditions, educational opportunities etc than most people in society:  underprivileged children
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