貧窮:是指缺乏錢財,生活拮据睏乏,缺乏生活機會的社會現象。在英語詞彙中,常用以下4個詞語來形容貧窮:
一、Poor 英[p:(r)] 美[pr]
作為形容詞:是指貧窮的、貧乏的、令人憐憫的;
作為名詞:the poor 指貧困者、窮人;
比較級:poorer;最高級:poorest;
有關Poor的用句案例:
1、Even the poor have their pride.
即使是窮人也有他們的自尊。
2、She was too poor to buy a new coat.
她太窮了,買不起新的外套。
3、Our school can't afford good teachers because it's too far from the big city and too poor.
我們的學校請不起好老師是因為這裡距離大城市太遠太窮。
4、This country is the poorest in Asia.
這個國家是亞洲最貧窮國家。
5、Compared with the poor money, more terrible is poor heart!
比起金錢上的貧窮,更可怕的是心窮!
6、South America, a resource-rich country with all kinds of resources, is still the poorest country in the world.
南美這個資源豐富的國家,各種資源都有,卻仍是最貧困的國家。
二、Needy 英[ni:di] 美[nidi]
作為形容詞:貧困的、平窮的;
作為名詞:貧窮的人;
比較級: needier 最高級: neediest 名詞: neediness
有關Needy的用句案例:
1、This is a needy family.
這是一個貧困的家庭。
2、The boss gave much food to needy people.
那位老闆給了窮人很多食物。
3、There are many needy families in our community.
我們社區有很多貧困家庭。
4、He deems it his duty to help his needy friends.
他認為幫助窮朋友是他的義務。
5、Diesel allowed stars to pick out an outfit--and have it sent to a needy child.
迪塞爾允許明星們挑選一套服裝,並把它送給一個貧困的孩子。
6、The foundation has worked out a plan of succoring the needy.
這家基金會已經制定出了救濟貧民的計劃。
三、Impoverished 英[mpvrt] 美[mpɑ:vrt]
作為形容詞:窮困的、無力的、用盡了的;
作為動詞:使(某人)貧窮( impoverish的過去式和過去分詞 )、使(某物)貧瘠或惡化;
原型: impoverish
關於impoverished的用句案例:
1、He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
他警告說,家庭單位的解體將導致社會的貧困。
2、The locality has a resident population of approximately 81 000, many of whom live in impoverished inner city neighbourhoods.
該地區常住人口約為81000人,其中許多人居住在貧困的市中心社區。
3、All villages were in rural and impoverished environments, there was neither on-site electricity nor functional community-based sanitation facilities.
所有村莊都處於貧困環境中,既沒有現場電力,也沒有以社區為基礎的功能性衛生設施。
4、The rural people have been impoverished by a collapsing economy.
經濟崩潰使農村地區的人們一貧如洗。
5、The impoverished family subsisted on charity.
那個貧窮的家庭靠慈善救濟過日子。
6、Besides, pesticides kill people, too: 300, 000 a year, most of them impoverished farm workers.
此外,農藥也會致人死亡:每年有30萬人死於農藥,其中大多數是貧困的農場工人。
四、Poverty-stricken 英[pvti:strkn] 美[pɑvtistrkn]
作為形容詞:為貧窮所困惱的、非常貧窮的;
有關Poverty-stricken的用句案例:
1、My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.
我的祖父母是作為貧困移民來到這個國家的。
2、The leader is visiting some of the most poverty-stricken areas of the city.
這個領導正在走訪該城一些最窮困的地方。
3、Some beggars are neither poverty-stricken nor homeless.
有些乞丐既不貧窮也不無家可歸。
4、There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
從貧困的農村湧入城市尋找工作的農民很難找到工作。
5、Invisible poverty-stricken population.
隱形貧困人口。
6、Many of the victims were doctors, who are seen as symbols of some wealth in poverty-stricken Pakistan.
許多受害者是醫生,在貧困的巴基斯坦,醫生被視為某種財富的象徵。