abject poverty

基本解释

Even the offer of US dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.
在赤貧的環境中，就連美元也衹能換來束手無策的表情，原因很簡單，那裡買不到任何食物。
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Nigerians now call for a revolution, which is to say there can be no peace while the majority of our people live in abject poverty and a tiny minority lives in gluttonous greed.
尼日利亞需要一場變革，如果一個國家的大多數人民生活在赤貧之中，而衹有極少一部分人卻貪婪地坐擁一切，那這個國家就不會有安甯。
Generating the economic growth needed to lift people out of abject poverty means ushering corporations into putative paradise.
爲了産生擺脫赤貧所需要的經濟增長，意味著要帶領公司進入公認的天堂。

What you will see a lot of times on a native reservation is there are some folks who are living well, but there are a lot places on reservations that are living in complete and abject poverty."
She was born right near the Italian border, but just in abject poverty.
她的出生地就在意大利邊境附近,但是真的很貧寒
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Does that mean they deserve to live in abject poverty while slaving away day after day?
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The military enjoys countless benefits in a country where half the population suffers from abject poverty.
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