A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贫困
Poverty
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
我们误解了贫困的本质，认为它是经济贫困。不，这是灵魂的贫乏，剥夺了上帝创造、热爱和平的能力。
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
我相信，进步与贫穷是人类思想中最紧密结合、最迷人、最令人信服的论据。
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
南非有许多富有的人，他们能够与那些未能克服贫困的不幸的人分享这些财富。
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
贫穷和被称为种族隔离的种族统治迫使特兰斯基安移民离开安全的土地到城市工作，然后再回来。
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
富人不能住在一个被贫困包围的岛上。我们都呼吸着同样的空气。我们必须给每个人一个机会，至少一个基本的机会。
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
如果你的日常生活看起来很糟糕，不要责怪它;责备你自己，你还不够诗人，不能唤起它的丰富;对于造物主来说，没有贫穷。
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
生活、不幸、孤独、遗弃、贫穷，都是有英雄的战场;无名英雄，有时比显赫的英雄更伟大。
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.
我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困，这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
贫穷是多维的。它超越了金钱收入的范畴，延伸到教育、医疗保健、政治参与以及个人文化和社会组织的发展。
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
没有人能通过翻阅账簿来判断自己是富有还是贫穷。是心灵使人富有。他富有不是因为他拥有什么，而是因为他是什么样的人。
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
使一个破产的人烦恼的与其说是贫穷，还不如说是矫饰——在骄傲的头脑和空虚的钱包之间挣扎——必须很快结束的空虚的表演。
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
欲望是贫困。欲望是心灵上最大的不洁。欲望是行动的原动力。心中的欲望才是真正的不洁。即使是欲望的火花也是非常邪恶的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Poverty is being single.
贫穷就是单身。
If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
如果社会如此严格地对待其成员中那些在机遇所创造的分配或财富方面最缺乏天赋、因而最值得纵容的人，这(难道不是)令人愤慨的吗?
Wealth consists not of having great possessions but of having few wants.
财富不在于拥有大量的财产，而在于拥有很少的欲望。
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
贫穷就像对你没有犯下的罪行的惩罚。
That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
这让我感觉很好，没有去一个外面是极度贫困的度假胜地。
Poverty and War have no excuse.
贫穷和战争没有借口。