A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贫困
Poverty
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
当我年轻的时候,贫穷是如此普遍,我们不知道它有一个名字。
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
孤独和被遗弃的感觉是最可怕的贫穷。
Great wealth is a gift from heaven; moderate wealth results from frugality.
巨大的财富是上天的礼物;适度的财富源于节俭。
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
当你有了精神基础,你就会以不同的眼光看待贫穷。
The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous.
贫穷最让人难以忍受的是它让人变得可笑。
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
这是贫穷的痛苦诅咒之一;没有权利慷慨。
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
贪婪是万恶之源,贫穷是万恶之源。
You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.
你看,过去五年的扶贫项目都是买断项目。
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
希望和喜悦是真正的财富;一个人要恐惧和悲伤,真正的贫穷。
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
诚实的穷人有时会忘记贫穷。诚实的富人永远不会忘记这一点。
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
我从未见过如此天真的信念与更大的智力贫困相关联。
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
灵魂的财富是由它能感觉到多少来衡量的;它的贫穷少得可怜。
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
我不认为人们明白,贫穷意味着你必须从早到晚工作,才能熬过一天。我认为有一种观念认为穷人整天无所事事。
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
贫困和缺乏知识必须受到挑战。
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
伟大的医生都是从泥路和贫困中接受教育的,而不是大理石地板和地基。
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
贫穷不是犯罪的根源。
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?
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
有些人认为奢侈是贫穷的反义词。它不是。它是粗俗的反义词。