A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide - the division of the world into the info (information) rich and the info poor.

今天，人们十分关注所谓的是信差异问题 — 世界上信资源丰富的地区和信资源贫乏的地区之间的差异。

Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?

你的落笔会是颤抖胆怯的，还是鲜明果敢的？你的想象会是丰富的还是贫乏的？

As it happens, I agree with my mother: profanity and vulgarity is the language of the ignorant and the verbally challenged.

在这事上，我倒是跟我母亲看法一致：脏话和亵渎性词句的确是无知蠹人以及言语贫乏者的语言。

The more fear then spirals into mistrust and poor medical care.

越多的会造成医患之间不信任, 以及贫乏的医疗救助。

The supply will have to last them through the lean and cold times ahead.

这些储备必须维持它们过前面贫乏而寒冷的时日。

Cockroaches are able to thrive even in nutrient-poor environments.

蟑螂可以在营养贫乏的环境下繁。

Now, this is hugely significant for the country because Japan is a resource-poor nation.

这对日本来说意义重大，因为日本本身是一个资源贫乏的国家。

Heidegger's ambition was to move away from philosophy as an overly anemic and intellectual endeavor.

海德格尔的野心是要摆脱哲学这种过于贫乏和理智的努力。

Alas, they are gone and we live on a much diminished planet.

哎，它们都一去不复运了，我们人类活在一个很贫乏的星球上。

For most desert dwellers, life revolves around the meagre rains.

对大多数沙漠居民来说，贫乏的雨水便是活所有的期盼。

Our individual failings are submerged; we become greater than the sum of our meagre parts.

我们个人的缺点被淹没了；我们变得比我们贫乏部分的总和更强大。

Time poverty has also been exacerbated by digital technologies.

数字技术也加剧了时间贫乏的现象。

When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders, Conseil added, think how we'll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man!

“当我们回到地上的时候，”康塞尔又说，看惯了这许多自然界的神奇，对于陆地上那些贫乏可怜的人手造的简陋小东西，我们将怎么想呢！

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

人类当前面临的一个重大问题是，我们精神上的极贫乏，这与科学和技术方面的累累硕果形成鲜明对比。

They offer their charges a Faustian bargain, says Richard Beard: the tools of success (principally fluency and self-confidence) in return for emotional impoverishment.

理查德·比尔德说，这些学校向学提供了一种浮士德式的交易：用成功的工具（主要是语言流利和自信）换取情感上的贫乏。

" Look, everyone just chill out, " Madeline says, using her poor classroom discipline skills to try to calm the group.

“听着，大家冷静下来（chill out），”玛德琳用她那贫乏的课堂纪律技巧试图让这一群人冷静。

Without the aid of these algae, filter-feeding corals, clams, and sponges would not gain enough nutrition in the nutrient-poor tropical ocean, and the dazzling coral reefs they build simply would not exist.

如果没有这些藻类的帮助，以滤食为的珊瑚、蛤蜊和海绵无法在营养贫乏的热带海洋中获得足够的营养，令人瞠目结舌的珊瑚礁根本无法建成。

We have touched already on the unlikelihood of any set of bones becoming fossilized, but the record is actually worse than you might think.

我们已经简单谈到任何一副骨骼变成化石的不可能性，但这类记录的贫乏程比你想像的还要严重。

And he said this: why should we, the country poorest in land resources, bear the burden of solving the Palestinian problem?

为什么应该由我们这样土地资源最贫乏的国家来扛起解决巴勒斯坦问 题的重担呢？

For example, humans who suffer from diseases like diabetes or chronic gut inflamation typically have less microbial variety in their guts.

例如，患有糖尿病或肠躁症的人，他们肠内的菌种贫乏。