被祝福的是那些在精神上贫穷的人,为他们存留的是天国的境界。
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
但至少在我长大的周围地区,以及在今天贫穷的黑人社区,有一种我称之为精神贫困的东西,是精神上的贫穷。
But at least in the neighborhoods where I grew up, and in poor black neighborhoods today, there is kind of what I call spiritual poverty, that is poverty of the spirit.
贫穷的恶魔,奥威尔写道,在它从身体上和精神上腐蚀人时,并不会带给人它造成的全部痛苦。
The evil of poverty, wrote Orwell, is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually.
但被赶出家的人,觉得自己是多余,觉得自己是没有人爱的,受到惊吓的,被社会所抛弃的人—要战胜这样的精神上的贫穷要难得多。
But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome.
尽管这个老妇人在物质方面是贫穷的,但她充满了爱心,在精神上却是富足的。
Though the old woman was poor materially, she was full of affection and rich in spirit. She was loved dearly by her children.
贫穷,可能是物质上的,也可能是精神上的。
贫穷,可能是物质上的,也可能是精神上的。
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