abject poverty

常见例句

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。
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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。
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。

What you will see a lot of times on a native reservation is there are some folks who are living well, but there are a lot places on reservations that are living in complete and abject poverty."
She was born right near the Italian border, but just in abject poverty.
她的出生地就在意大利边境附近,但是真的很贫寒
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Does that mean they deserve to live in abject poverty while slaving away day after day?
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The military enjoys countless benefits in a country where half the population suffers from abject poverty.
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The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
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