英语词汇“poverty”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	poverty
释义	pov·er·ty \ˈpävə(r)d.]ē, -)t], ]i\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté, from Latin paupertat-, paupertas, from pauper poor + -tat-, -tas -ty — more at poor 1. a. : lack or relative lack of money or material possessions : privation, want < transition from a life of almost the greatest pomp and circumstance … to one just, but only just, above the line of genteel poverty — Geoffrey Gorer > < in poverty, morality and even a touch of happiness was possible, never in destitution — R.A.Schermerhorn > < had roamed the picturesque poor quarters … but this ugly, barren poverty on the Spanish land was his first view of some men's helpless fate — Janet Flanner > b. : renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own, to receive by inheritance or gift, or to dispose of property 2. a. : meagerness of supply : scarcity, dearth < biographer … is necessarily embarrassed by the poverty of personal information preserved — John Loftis > < the cold thin atmosphere of his work was due … to a poverty of ideas and sensuous imagery — V.L.Parrington > b. : poorness in kind or quality : inferiority < cannot hide poverty of form under an opulent mask of orchestral color — Hunter Mead > c. : lack of desirable elements or attributes : deficiency < the … poverty of North and Northeastern Africa in river-producing power — Samuel Haughton > < suffered … from a certain poverty in our English critical vocabulary — Irving Babbitt > < slums cause spiritual poverty in many lives — J.T.Fanell > 3. a. : debility due to malnutrition : feebleness, emaciation < produce insufficient fodder … and one or two ranches suffered quite heavy losses from poverty — Report: Northern Rhodesia Veterinary Dept. > b. : lack of fertility < poverty of the soil >
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