Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

VOA: special.2009.07.19

He said, my apologies for not answering your letter but my health is poor and--but it was a long letter.

他写道,非常抱歉没能及时回复,我身体欠佳,这是一封很长的信

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

What's your opinion on the inequality between the rich and the poor?

你对于贫富之间的不平等有什么看法？

美国贫富差距？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

the officer said. "Nothing remains,General Lee, but to put your poor soldiers on their poor horses and send them home in time to plant the spring crops."

VOA: special.2009.12.17

And so in Exodus 23, you're going to have a law that tells you not to oppress a stranger because you were a stranger. It tells you to not plow your land in the Sabbath year immediately following that to let the poor and needy eat from it. It tells you to observe the Sabbath day rest.

在《出埃及记》第23章，你会看到有法令告诫你不要,欺压外人，因为你自己也是外人，也有法令告诫你,在安息日不要劳作，随后将收获的庄稼赠给穷苦之人,和有需要的人吃，告诫你守安息日。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

These are some of its best known words: Give me your tired,your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Maurice Chevalier was a crooner, he was a singer, he was--if your parents knew about France, he was the person that your grandparents even had heard about, and he was somebody from a poor part of Paris, and he was from Menilmontant, and he had this straw hat and he sung tunes-- "Very good my boys," And all of this stuff.

莫里斯·舍瓦利埃是个低吟男歌手,是个歌手,他是,要是你家长了解法国的话,他是那种你的爷爷都可能听说过的人,他是巴黎一个贫穷的地方的人,是从梅尼尔蒙当来的,他带着个草帽唱曲子,"小伙子们真不错",所有这些东西

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Well if you're of lower status, lower social status, the judge is going to look at you and say, "Come on, you're poor, your neighbor's rich, I'm going to side for the neighbor."

如果你社会地位低，法官会看着你说，“得了，你这么穷，你邻居很有钱，我站在你邻居这边“

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选