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词组 poverty
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poverty /ˈpɒvəti $ ˈpɑːvərti/ noun the situation or experience of being pooradjectives/nouns + povertygreat/extreme poverty They live in conditions of extreme poverty.abject poverty (=extremely severe) He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.grinding poverty (=extremely severe and continuing to have a terrible effect on people’s lives) Families were living in grinding poverty behind the hotels where the rich tourists stayed.world poverty The charity called for action to tackle the causes of world poverty.child poverty Child poverty is becoming an increasing problem in this country.rural poverty (=in the countryside) People come to the capital seeking to escape rural poverty.absolute poverty Worldwide, over one billion people live in absolute poverty.relative poverty (=being poor when compared with others) He grew up in relative poverty on a small ranch in Wyoming.verbslive in poverty Half the world is living in poverty.grow up in poverty No child should grow up in poverty in the US in the 21st century.die in poverty He gambled away all his money and died in poverty.fight/combat/tackle poverty (=take action to get rid of poverty) The money should be spent on fighting poverty. | Our priority is to tackle poverty and raise living standards.eradicate/eliminate poverty (=get rid of it) The Labour government pledged to eradicate child poverty by 2020.alleviate poverty formal (=make the problem of poverty less severe) What has the West done to alleviate poverty in the world?be reduced to poverty (=become very poor) By the end of the war, millions of people had been reduced to poverty.poverty + nounsthe poverty line also the poverty level AmE (=the income below which people are officially considered to be poor) Twenty percent of the population are living below the poverty line.the poverty rate (=the number of people below the poverty line in an area) This area has one of the highest poverty rates in Europe.the poverty trap (=a situation in which a poor person without a job cannot take a low-paying job because they would lose the money they receive from the government) People will never escape the poverty trap while state benefits are high and wages are low.
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