1. 贫乏；缺少；不足；短缺；缺乏；少量
2. 贫瘠；不毛
3. 贫穷，贫困
4. 虚弱
5. 劣质；低劣

1. [U]贫穷,贫困 the state of being poor
2. [S]缺少,贫乏 existing in too small amounts ; scarcity or lack
3. [S]贫瘠,劣质 state of being inferior; poor quality

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

1.贫穷；贫困
poverty is the state of being extremely poor.

e.g. According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolutepoverty...
根据世界银行的统计数字，41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。
e.g. Garvey died in loneliness andpoverty.
加维在孤独和穷困中死去。

2.贫乏；短缺；低劣
You can usepoverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor.

poverty

e.g. Britain has suffered from apoverty of ambition.
英国一直缺乏远大理想。
e.g. ...apoverty of ideas.
思想贫乏

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1. 穷困：对于贫穷问题或者窘迫境遇的研究,其理论范式经历了从穷困(poverty)理论到剥夺(deprivation)理论,再到社会排斥理论的几次大的转变. 贫困理论认为,贫困是在社会中缺乏必要的、最低标准的、生存必须的经济来源(主要是收入来源),

2. 貧：在他们袍子的腰带尾上有三个结,代表著他们向神所起的三个愿:终生持守简朴 清贫(poverty),持守圣洁忠贞(Chastity),和完全的归向顺服 (Obedience). 每一个修士每日凌晨起身,当要去紮紧腰带触及到这三个结时,他必由此提醒自 己,

1. They lived in poverty.
   他们生活在贫困之中。
2. He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture.
   他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解。
3. They were recognizable by the poverty of their dress.
   根据衣着寒酸这一点可以把他们认出来。

poverty line

贫困线minimum level of income needed to buy the basic necessities of life

• Father blamed himself bitterly for the poverty that forced him to bring us up in a slum.

  出自：S. Bellow

• Freud was..neat in dress..even when early poverty made this difficult.

  出自：A. Storr

• ☆ 1175年进入英语，直接源自古法语的poverte；最初源自古典拉丁语的paupertatem，意为贫穷。