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poverty trap

贫困陷阱,贫穷的陷阱,贫穷陷阱,贫困的陷阱

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the situation of being unable to escape poverty because of being dependent on state benefits, which are reduced by the same amount as any extra income gained

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Examples

  • Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.

  • It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.

  • The losers have always been children in poverty, children of color, and children with disabilities.

  • Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.

  • But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.

  • And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.

  • In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

  • He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.

  • Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

  • Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.