Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.

如今，一份解雇通知书、一不利的诊断结果或者配偶的去世都可能在几月之内将一家庭从稳定的中产阶层家庭降格成为一新贫困家庭。

And, by extension, we say things like, 'below the poverty line'.

另外，还有引申的意义，比我我们说的“贫困线以下”。

Seventy-two percent of Zimbabweans live below the poverty line.

72%的津巴布韦生活在贫困线以下。

When you look across this country, and when you see peoples’ lives held back by discrimination and poverty… when you see injustice and inequality. He said, you should be the last people to accept things as they are.

环国家，你们会发现许多被贫困和歧视深深困扰，会看到他们遭遇不公平和不公正的待遇，他说，成为最后放弃的。

They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation.

她们眼睁睁看着自己的孩由于贫困和经济剥夺而营养不良。

Well, extreme poverty has gone down dramatically.

极端贫困已显著地减少了。

People living in the most deprived areas are four times more prone to die from avoidable causes than counterparts in more affluent places.

生活在最贫困地的死于可避免因素的概率是富裕地的四倍。

Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.

他们的处境只是说明其贫困跟文明的发展水平相反相成。

Well, the government says building it would create 50,000 jobs, significantly helping Central America's poorest country.

恩，政府表示建造运河将创造50000就业岗位，大大帮助中美洲最贫困的国家。

Here is mine: Like many immigrants, my father's parents were poor in means but rich in culture and spirit.

我的历程始于我的祖父母：他们像许多移民一样，物质上很贫困但精神上很富足。

Most restavek children especially the girls do not attend school.

大多数贫困家庭的孩，尤其是女孩不上学。

We have it in our power, should we so choose, to lift millions from poverty, to help our citizens realize their dreams, and to ensure that new generations of children are raised free from violence, hatred, and fear.

我们有能力，也应该选择把数以百万计的民从贫困中拯救出来，帮助我们的公民实现他们的梦想，保证下一代能在没有暴力，仇恨和恐惧的环境中成长。

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with a particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty.

其主要任务是增强的福祉，帮助满足所有的基本需要，特别注重弱势、受压迫和生活贫困的。

Those who could afford to live in more pleasant surroundings moved out, and the area became one where the vast majority people lived in extreme poverty, and suffered from appalling sanitary conditions.

那些能够负担得起更好居住环境的搬走了，地成为了极贫困群的居住地，并遭受着恶劣的卫生问题的折磨。

One reason for the turnaround may be the country's antipoverty program.

转变的原因之一可能是该国的反贫困计划。

Benhura's work brought him out of poverty.

本胡拉的工作使他摆脱了贫困。

Misery's billions would be consigned to the annals of history.

数十亿贫困的事实将被载入编年史册。

Its main focus will be toward financing agriculture and tourism initiatives.

基金主要投向贫困地的种植业和旅游业。

A wall 3 meters high is erected enclosing half a million Jews: man, women, children, the elderly who will suffer horrifically from hunger, cold and poverty.

竖起3米高墙，围住50万名犹太，不论男女老幼都将忍受着极度地饥饿、寒冷和贫困。

“One of the more successful ways food assistance programs can tackle chronic hunger and poverty is by looking beyond food, ” wrote Dina Esposito, Director of USAID's Office of Food for Peace in a recent blog post.

“食品援助项目解决长期饥饿和贫困问题的一更加成功的方法就是超脱食物之外。”USAID和平食品援助办公室主任Dina Esposito在最近的博客中写道。