But he said if people changed their mindset, there could be a world without poverty.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

She was born right near the Italian border, but just in abject poverty.

她的出生地就在意大利边境附近,但是真的很贫寒

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And similarly, while we're at it--this is not a Matrix-like worry-- if you're worried about, yeah, but what's happening ? to world poverty while I'm doing all of this?

大家不必担心《骇克帝国》的情景-,如果你担心，当我接受实验时,国际贫困情况是否会恶化？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But this huge success was very different from the poverty of his early life.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

There are people who are dying of diseases for which there are known cures because they don't have the best medicine, which are often not even expensive but they're living in such poverty.

有些人因疾病而死,而这些疾病是可以被治愈的,但是他们没有最好的药物,有些药甚至并不是很昂贵,但是他们实在生活太困窘了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

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

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But improving the agricultural sector alone will not solve the growing poverty in urban areas where 40 percent of the population is unemployed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

He said his government will work hard to end piracy, but he said the problem of poverty will first have to be tackled.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

He says poverty, gender inequality, and conflict contribute to human trafficking, but it is the demand for unreasonably cheap labor and cheap goods that drive this unscrupulous trade.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"China has reduced extreme poverty through economic growth, but until very recently has overlooked the growing inequalities in health and health determinants like access to clean air,water, and sanitation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Others are just small consumers. But as they are lifted out of poverty, they will want to live like the more prosperous half of India and own cars, washing machines and air conditioners.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

China's rapid economic growth has pulled millions of the country's residents out of poverty, but a new report says the environmental impacts of this progress is threatening the health of hundreds of millions more.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

And in front of us, we have the possibility of sustained growth,helping billion, one billion people to get out of poverty,' The world economy has shown steady improvement since the second quarter of 2009, but Strauss-Kahn says the recovery has been uneven.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

What we're saying is we could take a tiny slice of that, 0.05 percent,which could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help for poverty in rich countries, jobs in the U.S.,jobs in the UK, but also for poverty in Africa as a result of people dying because of the economic crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

"We're talking about the livelihoods of millions of people but we're also talking about a huge potential resource of hydropower which can not only provide foreign revenues to the countries, but can those revenues can then be used to finance other development programs and help countries meet their targets on poverty alleviation and millenium development goals,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

"Development is a right and that should continue but that perhaps paths where there could be a reconciliation of the objective of poverty reduction, enhanced standards of living, a life of greater dignity in developing countries can be reconciled with climate objectives by shifting the sources of energy away from the fossil fuels to the cleaner and lower carbon emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01