A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可怜
Poor
No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has got into power.
对穷人最苛刻的人莫过于当权的乞丐。
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
如果穷人不提供食物，富人将不得不吃钱。
That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.
帮助你从有羽毛的床到稻草都是无益的。
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
只有雄辩家才会说话，这说明他的口才很差。
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
我认为富人帮助穷人的总体观念是重要的。
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
既然我们穷了，我们就自由了。没有白人控制我们的脚步。
When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.
当你真的很穷的时候，你所看到的一切都是你无法拥有的。
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
你是一个打马球的可爱的人，而我是一个独自打马球的可怜的波兰人。
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
预言，无论多么诚实，通常是经验的拙劣替代品。
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
撒但现在比从前更有智慧，他诱惑人，使人富足，不叫人贫穷。
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
我们只有通过给予才富有，只有通过拒绝才贫穷。
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
当想象力不得不与理解分开时，它是一件可怜的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
什么也不能答应的人，才是真正的穷人。
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
勇敢地去做伟大的事情，去赢得光荣的胜利，即使会受到失败的挫折……而不是与那些既不享受也不太受苦的可怜的人为伍，因为他们生活在一个既不知道胜利也不知道失败的灰暗的黎明里。
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
每个人的富有或贫穷取决于他的欲望和他的快乐之间的比例。
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
低估自己的价值而脸红，是一种可怜的精神。
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
他太穷，不能贿赂，又太骄傲，不能强求，因此他没有发财的办法。
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
拙劣的笑话必须自创笑料。