poverty-stricken / ˈpɒv ər tiˌstrɪk ən /

💦中学词汇穷困潦倒穷困潦倒的穷困的贫穷

poverty-stricken 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.

poverty-stricken 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

very poor

更多poverty-stricken例句

  1. Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.
  2. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.
  3. The losers have always been children in poverty, children of color, and children with disabilities.
  4. Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
  5. World peace, religious tolerance, and an end to global poverty, hunger, and disease.
  6. And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
  7. In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
  8. He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.
  9. Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
  10. Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.