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And the question is how does poverty fit into that question of life issues, with the prolife, with the death penalty.
问题是，贫困问题,是怎样和反堕胎，死刑等问题一同，被纳入生命这个话题中来的。
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So if someone is from a poor family, but they get admitted to Harvard Law School,
所以如果有人家庭贫困，但是被哈佛法学院录取了，
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I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.
我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。
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They're particularly people from the poorer quarters of the north and the northeast, more about that later.
他们是一群特殊的人,来自北部和东北部贫困地区,我们待会再谈
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I do not fear poverty and death does not frighten me.
无惧贫困,且死亡也吓不倒我。
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That's not about poverty.
和贫困率并不相关。
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That explains, in large part, why there was such a decline in population, why the Dark Ages were so dark, lots of poverty, lots of starvation, but also, as I suggested when I spoke of this earlier, also the freedom if you could make it, to learn and also to grow stronger.
这解释了,在绝大部分地区,为什么存在着这一类的人口消减,为什么黑暗时代如此黑暗,如此贫困,如此多的饥荒,但是同时,就如在我之前所提到的,同样可以,如果做得到的话,去学习以及使自身强大
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Every day the latter grows more wealthy and densely populated while the South is stationary and growing poor."
北方每天都在变得更富裕,人口也越来越多,而南方,毫无进步,变得越来越贫困"
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In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.
992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。
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There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.
在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒
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There are so many people you can't count, because they own nothing.
同时还有很多无从考证的贫困人口
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you can see as you look around, is a poorer class of people that's here.
环顾四周，你会发现，居住在这里的人都是社会中比较贫困的阶层。
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It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.
因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。
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And that got me to think gosh, these people have so little and I was a student, and I didn't have a lot of money, but I still had something to spare.
看到这张照片，我想,天啊，这些人太贫困了,虽然我是个学生，我没有很多钱，但我还是能够捐出些什么的。
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I think the media can show us what's happening, and we can relate to those people.
媒体能够让我们看到外面的世界，从而使我们了解到那些贫困中的人。
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Of course now I have visited projects and groups helping the poor and seen what they were doing.
当然，现在我已经亲历了许多组织,帮助贫困人口的过程，也看到了他们的工作。
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And from there, I go to... saying well, what can we do in terms of global poverty?
由此，我想到，我们可以为全球的贫困问题做些什么呢？
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It seems like it's not a news flash that religion is playing an extremely important part in our public square conversations, in our political life, in how we are making decisions on questions of poverty.
这似乎并非一条简讯,宗教发挥着极其重要的作用,在我们在公共场所的谈话中，在我们的政治生活中，在我们如何针对贫困问题做出决策。
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I suppose my exposure was really through the media originally.
我自己对于贫困的感受来源于媒体。
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And he argues that indigent citizens, who are unable to provide for themselves, should not be forced to rely simply upon the private charity of individuals but should be maintained at public expense.
对于那些因贫困而无法养活自己的人，他却认为不能让他们，完全依靠私人的慈善救济过活,而应当用国家公共支出,建立相应的保障来维持他们的生活。
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Poverty figures are different.
贫困率不是这个数值。
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And we need to tell stories about this family in Mozambique, that group in Ethiopia, these people in Cambodia, and all of those sorts of things that I think to make it real.
我们需要向人们讲述他们的故事,可能是关于莫桑比克的一个家庭，或埃塞俄比亚的一个社区，还有柬埔寨的人们，以及类似的故事，让人们感受到贫困的真实存在。
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So I don't know if part of the solution has to be exposure?
所以我想知道，让人们感受到贫困,是否也是解决方案的一部分？
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And then poverty is a crucial part of that question.
贫困也是这个问题中重要的一部分。
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I'm not sure that it has to be direct exposure.
我不能说一定要让人们直接感受贫困。
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But then I ask them to think, and in the book I ask the readers to think: Well, have you given a cost of an expensive pair of shoes to save the life of one of the around 9 million children who are dying from poverty related causes each year around the world?
但是，接着我让他们思考，在书中，我让读者思考这样一个问题：,你有没有捐出过买一双鞋的钱,来拯救900万儿童中的一个生命？,他可能正因为贫困导致的种种问题,而生命垂危，每年世界上都会有这样的儿童？
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And I conclude that we do have an obligation, to give significantly to help the world's poor.
我认为，我们的确有责任，慷慨地捐赠，来帮助世界上的贫困人口。
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You could buy a policy that protected you against your family not having the money to bury you if you died.
你可以买份保单,能使你避免,因家庭贫困而无钱供你死后下葬
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Well, if you're a poor farmer, you don't know what else to do.
如果你是一个贫困的农民,你不知道自己能干什么
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