片语

in abject poverty utterly destitute穷得一无所有

In Abject Poverty赤贫

beggary赤贫；卑劣；行乞

people living in abject poverty赤贫人口

rise out of abject poverty摆脱一贫如洗的状态

英汉例句

• Nigerians now call for a revolution, which is to say there can be no peace while the majority of our people live in abject poverty and a tiny minority lives in gluttonous greed.

  尼日利亚需要一场变革，如果一个国家的大多数人民生活在赤贫之中，而只有极少一部分人却贪婪地坐拥一切，那这个国家就不会有安宁。

• They were living in such abject poverty that they could not even afford the bare necessities.

  他们一贫如洗，连最起码的生活必需品都买不起。

• Man proposes, God in Heaven, be brought to fruition in the people, 「 as long as the action, there is 」force the spirit of abject poverty can become a billionaire.

  谋事在天，成事在人「，只要付诸行动，有」逼的精神，一贫如洗也能成为亿万富豪。

• Even the offer of us dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.

  在赤贫的环境中，就连美元也只能换来束手无策的表情，原因很简单，那里买不到任何食物。

• An even tougher problem facing the developing world is that a high percentage of people living in abject poverty now have to cope with volatile food prices.

  发展中国家面临的一个更严重的问题是，大量生活极度贫困的人口目前不得不面对动蕩的食品价格。

• About 70% of its 7.3m people live in abject poverty in the countryside.It has still not fully recovered from a vicious five-year civil war that ended in 1997.

  在这个730万人口的国家中将近有70%的人在乡下过着困顿的生活，并没有从1997结束的长达5年的残酷的内战中完全恢复过来。

• Generating the economic growth needed to lift people out of abject poverty means ushering corporations into putative paradise.

  为了产生摆脱赤贫所需要的经济增长，意味着要带领公司进入公认的天堂。

• Billions of people still live, untouched by the ICT revolution, in abject poverty with its implications of disease, illiteracy and despair.

  几十亿人仍然生活在赤贫及它带来的疾病、文盲与绝望之中，私毫未受到信息和通讯技术革命的影响。

• Globalization has clearly been responsible for lifting at least 2 billion people from abject poverty to extremely low levels of middle class.

  全球化进程很显明地使得至少20亿人从极端贫困上升到中产阶级的最低端水平。

• Though the official number of those in abject poverty is small, many more are yet to rise above the difficult fight for subsistence.

  尽管官方公布的贫困人口的数字并不大，但是笔者一数字要多得多的人却正在为了生存而奋斗。