名詞 poverty:

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
   同義詞：poorness, impoverishment

1. Although she was poor, she was living in genteel poverty.
   盡管她貧窮，但她總想裝出上流社會階層的樣子。
2. The novel is a searing indictment of urban poverty.
   這部小說是對城市貧困的震撼心靈的控訴。
3. People in this area were ground down by hunger and poverty.
   這個地區(qū)的人們受著饑餓和貧窮的折磨。
4. The old man has been soured by poverty.
   那老人因貧困而變得乖戾了。
5. The government has pledged itself to wage a war against poverty and disease.
   政府發(fā)誓要進(jìn)行一場消滅貧窮和疾病的斗爭。
6. The man lived in poverty after his unemployment.
   這人失業(yè)后就生活在貧困之中。

pov.er.ty

n.（名詞）
The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
貧窮：窮的狀況；缺乏獲取物質(zhì)生活必需品及需求的手段
Deficiency in amount; scantiness:
不足：數(shù)量的缺乏；匱乏：
例句：
.the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul.(Scott Turow)
.精神的貧乏使她的靈魂變得空虛.(斯科特·圖羅)

Unproductiveness; infertility:
貧瘠；不孕：
例句：
the poverty of the soil.
土壤的貧瘠

Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
（財產(chǎn)的）放棄：作為宗教會社成員，放棄擁有財產(chǎn)之權(quán)

來源：
Middle English poverte
中古英語 poverte
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin paupert3s
源自 拉丁語 paupert3s
from pauper [poor] * see pau-
源自 pauper [貧窮的] *參見 pau-