poverty
US /ˈpɑvəti/
・UK /ˈpɔvəti/
B1 中級英檢中級
n. (u.)不可數名詞貧窮
Poverty is an epidemic across the globe
n. (u.)不可數名詞貧乏
Many children have a poverty of life experiences
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決策 | 決策的未來 | 諾貝爾獎對話雪梨 (Decision making | The Future of Decision Making | Nobel Prize Dialogue Sydney)
- Over that time, despite more than doubling of the population in my 57 years on earth, poverty has been substantially reduced worldwide.
在這段時間裡，儘管我在地球上的 57 年裡人口增長了一倍多，但全世界的貧困現象已大幅減少。
- Over that time, despite more than doubling of the population in my 57 years on Earth, poverty has been substantially reduced worldwide.
人類經歷了歷史上可以說是最繁榮的時期之一，卻再次開始積累我們都應該感到恐懼的風險。
J. K. 羅琳：生命中的一年 (電視電影, 2007) (J. K. Rowling - A Year In The Life (TV, 2007))
- And I become most irritated and angry by people who have really no idea how it feels to exist in poverty and how disadvantaged cast and sometimes irreparable blight over people's lives.
關於一棟20英畝大在佛羅里達的哈利波特主題公園
- And I become most irritated and angry by people who have really no idea how it feels to exist in poverty and how disadvantaged cast and sometimes irreparable blight over people's lives.
我遮掩的還不錯，但我只是
世界上最大的難民營發生大火，數百人失蹤 - BBC News (Hundreds missing after devastating fire in world’s biggest refugee camp - BBC News)
- Close to a million Rohingyas live in the world's largest refugee camp, already in dire poverty, they're once again struggling to survive.
這座規模世界最大的難民營共容納了將近 100 萬名羅興亞人，他們長期處於極度貧困之中，如今又再次面臨生死存亡的關頭。
- Already in dire poverty, they're once again struggling to survive.
這一個難民危機久而未決，彰顯了國際社會處理這個問題的失敗。