Increasingly, cities are suffering simultaneously the problems of poverty and affluence: pollution and destitution

城市同时受到贫困和富裕产生的难题-污染和赤贫的困扰。

a war that brought desolation and destitution

带来荒凉与穷困的战争.

The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution .

对于众多赤贫的人们,这几袋食物简直是杯水车薪

Live in complete destitution

生活一贫如洗.

He has come to destitution , and of course has no money to pay the rent

他已一贫如洗,当然没钱支付房租。

He reach the excess of destitution from which he never rose again

他走到了贫困的极端,从此一蹶不振。

To free them from destitution so that they can live a better life

脱贫致富奔小康

be reduced to destitution

陷于赤贫的境地.

From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution

向饥寒、孤独、遗弃、贫困收买。

A . . . widow . . . has laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter

一个.寡妇.在一封很感人的信里向他叙述她穷困的情形

By telling the story of a grand feudal family from prosperity to destitution , the novel sounded the death knell of the feudal society.

以描写显赫封建望族的兴荣衰败,敲响了中国封建社会的丧钟。

In some regions the types of mental and physical destitution were without parallel.

在有些地区里,精神上和物质上的贫乏的情况是无法比拟的。

As a result of the war, the fields lay waste and the people lived in destitution .

战争使得田园荒芜,民生凋敝。

He was horrified by the destitution of the poor family.

这一家的贫困惨状使他大为震惊.

||1: Economics was a practical as well as an analytical science. ||2: From the left, Beatrice Potter Webb argued that mass destitution could be cured by “the household state”. Fisher showed that good management of the money supply could contribute to stability. ||3: Keynes insisted that crises could be prevented if the government could act as the spender of last resort, just as the central bank was lender of last resort.

||1:经济学是一门分析科学，也是一门实践科学。||2:比阿特丽斯·波特·韦伯认为“每个家庭自为国家”能够解决大众贫穷的问题，费希尔让我们知道，对货帀供应进行良好管理有助于保持经济稳定。||3:凯恩斯坚持认为，如果政府能在最后时刻出手消费，中央银行能在最后时刻提供贷款，便能阻止经济危机的发生。

Her destitution illustrates a wider problem.

她的贫困反映了一个更深层次的问题。

"Most people actually went into destitution . People who had 100 heads of cattle remained with 10, goats the same. The herd size is what makes pastoralism a bit economical, but once the herd size shrinks it becomes really uneconomical."

谢赫说，“实际上大多数人都走进了贫困。曾有着100头牛的人们只剩下10头牛，山羊也一样。让游牧很经济的是畜群规模，但是一旦畜群规模缩小，游牧就会变得相当不划算。”

It says high food prices are causing families to fall deeper into destitution and the hunger-poverty trap.

报告还说高粮价正使得很多家庭在贫困和饥饿-贫穷的陷阱中越陷越深。

Thus, 800-900 million Indians live in conditions that most developed-world citizens would consider destitution .

此外，8、9亿印度人的生活状况被大多数的发达国家视为贫困状态。

But most Roma leave their homelands in search not of work but of freedom from destitution and persecution.

但是大多数离开居住地的吉普赛人并不是为了工作，而是为了逃离贫困或迫害。

For the victims, whose hopes of avoiding destitution often depended on finding relatives in safer places.

对于后者，避免陷入穷困的希望常常依赖于能否找到他们身在安全地区的亲戚。

It is not surprising that the sensual riches granted to a sensitive man of these regions should coincide with the most extreme destitution .

感官上的富有比之于这些地区的一个敏感人来讲应当与极度贫困相符，这不足为奇。

North Korea did not and, lacking communist bloc support, fell into destitution .

可是北朝鲜并没有参与，缺少了共产主义集团的支持，它掉进了贫困。

The impact of the global financial and economic crisis only increases the threat of marginalization and destitution .

全球金融和经济危机的影响更加剧了边缘化和赤贫的威胁。

Zuma said South Africa has witnessed and endured centuries and decades of conflict, oppression, deprivation and destitution .

他说，在过去数十年乃至数百年的历史中，南非见证并亲历了斗争、压迫、剥夺与贫困。

It is essential to realize that they may be, as it were, the two aspects of the same destitution .

我们必须意识到，这可能是一个贫瘠生活的两个方面。

The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.

一美元一天的全球贫困定义是在世界银行1990年世界发展报告中首次亮相的。

In developed countries unemployment, scourge though it is, does not lead to utter destitution as it did in the 1930s.

在发达国家中，尽管失业情况很严重，却不会像1930年代那样带来困窘的生活。

China has a tradition of defining destitution abstemiously, perhaps in an effort to keep the poverty count low and the relief bill down.

中国一向有个传统就是适度地定义贫穷，或许是为了努力保持一个较低的贫穷人口数目和降低救济资金。

come to destitution

一贫如洗

hardship and destitution

艰难竭蹶

the people live in destitution

民生凋敝

Waste and destitution filled the eyes

荒凉满目

to be in destitution;to suffer setbacks

颠沛

1.in poverty and distress;destitution;badly off;2.deprivation

穷困