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单词 poverty-stricken
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poverty-strickenadjective

uk/ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬iˌstrɪk.ən/

A poverty-stricken person or place is suffering from the effects of being extremely poor:

Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.

poverty-strickenadjective [ not gradable ]

us/ˈpɑv·ər·tiˌstrɪk·ən/

extremely poor:

My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.
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