poverty

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poverty
/`pɑvɚtɪ/
n.
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. 贫穷。
Renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. 安贫(神职人员放弃财产拥有权)。
Scarcity; dearth. 缺乏;不足。
Debility due to malnutrition. 营养不良引起的衰弱。
Lack of fertility. 贫瘠。
- poverty of the soil 土壤贫瘠。
短语:
poverty of blood 贫血。
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 穷困入门,爱情即越窗而逝。
cf.
Poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution. These words mean the state of one with insufficient resources. Poverty、indigence、penury、want、destitution。这几个字都意谓一个人资产不足的状态。
Poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts. Poverty 涵盖的层面较广,可指生活必需品的极端缺乏,也可指没有舒适的享受。
Indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances. Indigence 暗示非常艰苦的境况。
Penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money. Penury 暗示手头很紧紧,迫切地需要钱。
Want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure. Want and destitution 暗示因饥寒交迫而有生命之虞的赤贫。
同义词:
poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution.
- 英语>简体中文, 美语词典
poverty
/ˈpɒvətɪ/
n.
1. (financial) 贫困;贫穷
- He was shocked by the poverty he saw around him. 看到周围的人如此贫穷, 他很震惊。
- Garvey died in loneliness and poverty. 加维在孤独和贫困中死去。
to live in poverty 过着贫穷的生活
- people living in poverty 生活贫困的人们
- 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty. 41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。
2. <正式> [+of ideas, imagination, values, ambition] 贫乏;缺少;不足
- a poverty of ideas 思想贫乏
- Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. 英国一直缺乏远大理想。
3. 【农】 [+of land, soil] 贫瘠
- 英语>简体中文, 英汉大词典
poverty
/ˈpɒvəti/, US: /ˈpɑːvərti/
n.
贫穷,贫困;贫乏
贫穷
- 英语>简体中文, 高中课标词汇
poverty
n. 贫穷,贫困,贫乏,缺少
【根】-ty 表示抽象名称的词尾 变化型 -ety, -ity
- 英语>简体中文, 英文字根词典
poverty
n.(名词)
1. 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
2. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: 不足:数量的缺乏;匮乏:
- “the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul”(&b{Scott Turow}) “精神的贫乏使她的灵魂变得空虚”(斯科特·图罗)
3. Unproductiveness; infertility: 贫瘠;不孕:
- the poverty of the soil. 土壤的贫瘠
4. 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
- 英语>简体中文, 美国传统词典
poverty
n. 贫穷,缺乏,贫穷
- 英语>简体中文, 英汉化学大词典
poverty
贫乏,缺乏:必需物质或成分的缺少或缺如
- 英语>简体中文, 英中医学辞海
poverty
n. 贫穷
- 英语>简体中文, 英汉法学大辞典
poverty
n.
贫穷, 贫困
- They lived in poverty. 他们生活在贫困之中。
缺少; 贫乏
- He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture. 他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解。
低劣; 劣质
- 英语>简体中文, 简明英汉词典
poverty1
(noun 名词)
贫穷
He was rich, but is now reduced to poverty. 过去他有钱,不过现在穷了。
SYNONYM 同义词:bankruptcy, beggary, dearth,debt, destitution, hardship, indigence, lack,necessity, need, penury, privation, scarcity,shortage, want.
OPPOSITES: SEE 反义词参阅wealth.
- 英语>简体中文, 英语同义词词典
poverty1
n.
贫穷[困]
缺少[乏], 贫乏, 不足(of, in); (土地的)贫瘠不毛
虚弱; 低劣

继承用法
poverty-striken
adj.
极度贫穷[乏]的
abject poverty
赤贫, 一贫如洗
(as) witness sb.'s poverty
某人的贫困足以作证
live in genteel poverty
家贫而要面子摆阔
P-is no sin.
[谚]贫非罪。
P-is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
[谚]贫不足耻, 耻贫乃耻。
P-makes strange bedfellows.
[谚]难中不择友; 同病相怜。
英语>简体中文, 现代英汉综合大辞典
poverty
貧窮
- 英语>繁体中文(香港), 经济术语
poverty
貧窮
- 英语>繁体中文(香港), 旅游术语
poverty
貧窮
- 英语>繁体中文(香港), 社会术语
poverty
/ˈpɒvətɪ/
1. 不可数名词 Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. 贫穷
- 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。
2. 单数型名词 You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor. 贫乏 [正式] [also no det, N 'of' n]
- ...a poverty of ideas. …思想的贫乏。
英语>简体中文, 高级英汉双解词典