穷

Poverty begets debt.

穷则债聚。

a poor kid growing up in the ghetto

在贫民区长大的穷孩子

poor children going barefoot in the street

光着脚流落街头的穷孩子

They were cocooned from the experience of poverty.

他们没受过穷。

Leonidas' family had been poor, he went hungry for years.

利奥尼达斯家曾经很穷，他有很多年都吃不饱肚子。

"I started fixin' up ole bicycles fer poor kids."

“我开始为穷孩子修理旧自行车。”

Hardship and penury wore him out before his time.

受穷受苦使他未老先衰.

All his poor kinfolks came to spend their holidays at his home.

他的穷亲戚都到他家来度假.

Although he was poor, he was quite generous to his needy friends.

他虽穷, 但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨.

Exchange of unequal values makes the poor countries poorer.

不等价交换使穷国更穷.

Mr Burke, pleading poverty, changed his mind.

伯克先生以自己穷为由改变了主意。

They were too poor to buy shoes for the kids.

他们穷得没钱给孩子买鞋穿。

She is too poor to satisfy her family's material needs.

她太穷了,无法满足家人的物质需要.

Surely you can't be that badly off?

你肯定没那么穷吧？

If he is poor, at least he is honest.

他虽然穷, 但至少是诚实的.