A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贫困
Poverty
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
如果正义被剥夺，贫困被强制执行，无知盛行，任何一个阶级都感到社会是一个有组织的阴谋，企图压迫、抢劫和贬低他们，那么无论个人或财产都不会安全。
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?
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
一方面，我们必须问，是否有一些领域的全民福利已经无法承受?但另一方面，让我们看看依赖的问题，我们通过人们所享有的福利使他们陷入贫困。
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
事实上，我们这一代人是第一代能够正视疾病和极端贫困的人，能够跨越大洋来到非洲，并且说到做到。我们不需要忍受这些。整个大陆都被一笔勾销了——我们不必忍受这种情况。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西，无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变，是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服，保留你的思想。
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.
除非我们成功地应对气候变化，否则我们将无法克服世界贫困。我一生都是发展经济学家，很明显，我们在战胜世界贫困和共同应对气候变化的斗争中是成功还是失败。如果我们在一件事上失败了，我们在另一件事上也会失败。
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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
右派坚持认为任何人都可以通过努力工作来摆脱贫困，但事实并非如此。
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
贫穷对富人来说是一种反常现象;很难理解为什么想吃晚饭的人不按铃。
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
我相信，只要有足够的，贫穷就是邪恶的。
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。
Poverty is unnecessary.
贫穷是不必要的。
Whoever hastens to grow rich will not go unpunished.
任何急于致富的人都会受到惩罚。