poverty的意思
n. 贫穷；缺乏，不足；贫瘠，不毛；低劣
poverty的用法
用作名词(n.)
They lived in poverty.
他们生活在贫困之中。
He showed his poverty in his knowledge of agriculture.
他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解。
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的用法例句
1. Mr Dunn's pleas of poverty are only partly justified.
邓恩先生贫穷的托词只是部分成立。
2. They refuse to do anything about the real cause of crime: poverty.
他们拒绝采取措施解决引发犯罪的真正问题：贫穷。
3. He stole, lied, deceived and pimped his way out of poverty.
他通过偷窃、撒谎、欺诈和拉皮条使自己摆脱了贫困。
4. Poverty and illiteracy go together with high birth rates.
贫困、文盲与高出生率密切相关。
5. The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
贫困数字毫无疑问让总统非常难堪。
6. The government is not simply relying on trickle-down economics to tackle poverty.
政府并没有仅仅依赖垂滴经济学来解决贫困。
