poverty-主題

poverty

['pɔvəti]

n.貧困, 貧乏, 劣質

例句與用法：

Although she was poor, she was living in genteel poverty.

儘管她貧窮，但她總想裝出上流社會階層的樣子。

The novel is a searing indictment of urban poverty.

這部小說是對城市貧困的震撼心靈的控訴。

People in this area were ground down by hunger and poverty.

這個地區的人們受著飢餓和貧窮的折磨。

The old man has been soured by poverty.

那老人因貧困而變得乖戾了。

The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.

政府發誓要進行一場消滅貧窮和疾病的鬥爭。

The man lived in poverty after his unemployment.

這人失業後就生活在貧困之中。

英文解釋:

名詞 poverty:

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

同義詞：poorness, impoverishment

同義詞

indigence | destitution | penury | need | dearth | lack | distress | paucity | scarcity | neediness | shortage | privation | insufficiency | scarceness | want | impoverishment | poorness | necessitousness | depletion | absence | impecuniousness | straits | pennilessness | difficulties | meagreness | beggary | shortness | scantiness | starvation | bareness | exiguity | pauperism | scantness | hunger | homelessness | necessity | hardship | impecuniosity | deficiency | financial distress | short supply | supply | short | bare | narrow | cupboard | existence | hand-to-mouth | financial |

反義詞

richness | wealth |

以上來源於大辭典