poverty

['pɔvəti]

n.贫困, 贫乏, 劣质

n.[U]

1. 贫穷, 贫困

His family lives below the poverty line.

他的一家生活极端艰苦。

He lived in poverty.

他生活贫穷。

2. 贫乏, 缺少[S1][(+of/in)]

The article shows a poverty of imagination.

这篇文章显得缺乏想像力。

His later stories are not interesting because of their poverty of imagination.

他后来写的故事因为缺乏想像力而枯燥乏味。

3. 不毛, 贫瘠

4. 虚弱

词义辨析

同义:

n.贫穷, 贫困; 穷困; 困难; 饥饿

indigence  penury  impoverishment  impecuniousness  neediness  necessitousness  privation  destitution  pennilessness  beggary  pauperism  distress  difficulties  straits  narrow straits  starvation  hunger  bare cupboard  poorness  financial distress  hand-to-mouth existence  homelessness

n.缺少, 不足, 耗尽, 空

lack  want  absence  dearth  paucity  scarcity  short supply  shortage  depletion  need  insufficiency

n.贫乏; 空乏

meagreness  scarceness  scantiness  scantness  exiguity  shortness  bareness  

同义参见:

necessity  

反义:

n.贫穷; 贫乏; 贫瘠

richness  wealth  abundance  affluence  

英英释义

名词 poverty:

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

同义词：poorness, impoverishment

补充

povertypoverty英:[ˈpɔvəti] 美:[ˈpɑvəti]n.1.贫穷, 贫困They lived in poverty.他们生活在贫困之中。2.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。3.低劣; 劣质

例句

1. He was shocked by the poverty he saw around him.看到周围的人如此贫穷, 他很震惊。 2. Garvey died in loneliness and poverty.加维在孤独和贫困中死去。 3. people living in poverty生活贫困的人们 4. 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty.41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。 5. a poverty of ideas思想贫乏 6. Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition.英国一直缺乏远大理想。 7. thousands of families are living in abject poverty.成千上万的家庭生活在赤贫中。 8. the poverty of her imagination.她想像力贫乏。 9. rural/urban poverty农村/城市的贫困 10. families living in poverty生活贫困的家庭 11. He came from poverty.他出身贫穷。 12. He was born in/into poverty.他出身贫困。 13. There is a poverty of information about the disease.有关这种疾病的信息还很缺乏。 14. a poverty of imagination想象力匮乏