赤贫，一贫如洗

abject misery───悲惨的

address poverty───解决贫困问题

abject apology───负荆请罪

antipoverty───adj.（美）反贫穷的；n.（美）反贫困计划（尤指由政府倡导发起的计划）

combat poverty───与贫困作斗争

dire poverty───赤贫

end poverty───消除贫困

fight poverty───对抗贫困问题

flee poverty───逃离贫困

Whenever I think of man’s abject poverty, his rot, his spreading gangrene, I am gripped by mortal despair.───每当我想到人类的一贫如洗，他的腐朽，他散布的毒疽，我已被道德的绝望所攫住。

The boy felt shamed of his abject poverty.───这个男孩因赤贫而感到羞耻.

People living in abject poverty ( $ 1 per day ) don't limit their fertility.───生活在赤贫 ( 每天1美元的生活 ),不限制其生育能力.

Overcoming oppression and abject poverty and terrible disease is hard.───战胜压迫，卑微的贫穷，以及可怕的疾病才是困难的。

Both of them died in abject poverty.───他们两个人都死于穷困潦倒。

In a slum, people live in abject poverty.───在贫民区, 人们可怜地生活在贫穷之中.

Both of them died in abject poverty.───他们两人都于穷困潦倒中死去。

As a result of low family income, living a life of abject poverty.───一家人由于收入微薄, 过着赤贫的生活.

However, many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax.

Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad, cut off from family and friends.

They live in abject poverty.

The parasite has been nurtured by abject poverty, intermittent political chaos and, some charge, international indifference.

What these hopefuls achieved for their pleasure and pain was a violent lifestyle of abject poverty.

He was born in abject poverty with a family history of madness, yet grew up to take the world by storm.

In a continent where economic successes are rare, authoritarianism may seem a lesser evil than abject poverty.

Both of them died in abject poverty.

Wealth was much more frequent than abject poverty.