A rich cook sent food for twenty of the poorest children in the town.
一位有钱的厨师为镇上最贫穷的20个孩子派遣了食物。
A rich man who made bread and cakes sent for twenty of the poorest children in the town, and told them to take a loaf of bread from a basket every day till the hard days passed.
一个做糕点的富人叫来镇上二十个最穷的孩子,让他们每天从篮子里拿一块面包,直到度过艰难的日子。
Even the poorest Americans are rich by the standards of many other countries, so there is money to be made by serving them. McDonald's, for example, is booming.
即使是最穷的美国人,从很多其他国家的标准来衡量,也是富裕的,所以为他们提供服务肯定有赚头,比如麦当劳就经营得红红火火。
Since then, the sea off Somalia’s coast has seen an increasing number of warships mainly from rich countries trying—with partial success—to fend off pirates from the poorest.
自那以后,在索马里海岸线以外的海域里可以看到越来越多的主要来自发达国家的军舰,他们尝试着阻止来自贫穷地方的海盗,并取得了些许的成功。
On both sides of the Atlantic, rich children tend to stay rich, but as Ms Docteur says, the poorest American children are considerably more likely than are their European peers to stay poor.
大西洋的两岸的国家中,来自富裕家庭的孩子们一直富裕着,但是,正如多科特女士所说的,最贫困的美国孩子们比其欧洲同样身处困境的同龄人更易甘于贫困。
The collapse of the seven-year effort to further reduce trade barriers is regrettable, not least because it aimed to increase the access of the poorest countries to rich-country markets.
为进一步减少贸易壁垒,我们付出了七年的努力,现在却功亏一篑,十分遗憾,这不止因为这些谈判的目标是提高最贫穷国家在富裕国家市场中的准入水平。
ONCE the toys of rich yuppies, mobile phones have evolved in a few short years to become tools of economic empowerment for the world's poorest people.
曾是富有雅皮士玩具的移动电话在短短几年变成了世界上最贫困国家增强经济实力的工具。
By contrast, in 44% of the rounds the poorest players gave up some of their tiny funds to see the rich become less wealthy.
与之相反,在44%的时间里,最穷的玩家放弃了自己的一部分微薄的资金,以减少富玩家的财产。
Once when there was a famine, a rich baker sent for twenty of the poorest children in the town, and said to them, "in this basket there is a loaf for each of you."
从前有一次闹饥荒的时候,一位有钱的面包师派人把镇上最贫穷的20个孩子叫来,对他们说:“这个篮子里的面包你们一人一个。”
Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, calls climate change the world's biggest regressive tax: the poorest pay for the behaviour of the rich (see map).
加州伯克利大学的教授柯克·史密斯认为,气候改变是世界最大的递减税:最贫穷的国家支付了富国的费用。
Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, calls climate change the world's biggest regressive tax: the poorest pay for the behaviour of the rich (see map).
加州伯克利大学的教授柯克·史密斯认为,气候改变是世界最大的递减税:最贫穷的国家支付了富国的费用。
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