Unlike extreme poverty, moderate poverty generally refers to conditions of life in which basic needs are met, but barely.
与极端贫困不同,中度贫困一般指的是基本需求勉强得到满足的生活条件。
He did well in mathematics, but barely scraped through in chemistry.
他数学考得不错,但化学只是勉强及格。
劳拉幸存下来了,但却体无完肤。
Iron Man wins, but barely, and Ivan's locked up.
钢铁侠侥幸获胜,“鞭锁”被关了起来。
But barely a year after Salinger's death at age 91, a new biography is here.
塞林格最终以九十一岁高龄驾鹤西归,但就在他离世后一年,一本新传记悄然面世。
OK, uh… he's breathing… but barely… and his… and his… and his heartbeat is weak…
好,嗯…他在呼吸…但很弱…还有他的…他的…他的心跳微弱…
But barely 1% of industry sales last year were hybrid or electrically powered vehicles.
但是,在去年的行业销售中,仅有不到1%来自于混合或电动车辆。
The Rat Race refers to a pattern ofbehavior where we work for a living but barely make any progress financially.
“老鼠赛跑”是指那种为了生活而拼命工作、却没有改善财务状况的人的生活行为模式。
But barely a third of the audience opted to watch the boy wizard battle his snake-faced foe in three dimensions.
然而仅有三分之一的观众选择在3D世界中观看魔法少年和他的蛇脸宿敌的决战。
Having said that, in such a setting teaching and community service are obviously important, but barely touched upon here.
尽管这么说,在这样的一个环境中,教导和社区服务是显然重要的,但是这里仅仅简单涉及。
Since Xiao Sha left to join the national squad, there have been nine years of newspaper cuttings but barely any personal contact.
自从XiaoSha离开家人参加国家队以后已经9年了,但是一直没有跟家里见面。
The hinges appear to be a bit small in relation to the laptop's size, but barely allow a teetering after opening Angle adjustments.
这似乎是一个铰链的尺寸有点小,相对于笔记本电脑,但几乎没有允许开启角度调整后摇摇欲坠。
More than 600,000 Americans filedfor bankruptcy in the fourth quarter of 2005, but barely 100,000 did so in thefirst three months of 2006.
2005年第四季度,超过60万的美国人提出破产,但在2006年前三个月只有10万。
But there are obvious defects, such as paying more attention to pure incentive theory, but barely involving the application of the incentive scheme.
但也存在明显缺陷,如过分注重纯理论研究,而对激励方案的应用很少涉及。
The lucky ones among his opponents was just be thrown into some dungeon or other full of mold and moisture, but barely even the molecule of eatable food.
幸运一点的对手可能会被关进满是霉菌、充满湿气的地牢——但那儿几乎连一点可吃的食物都没有。
The economists concluded that, just as theory predicts, most people's consumption varies as permanent income changes, but barely responds to temporary shocks.
这几位经济学家的结论是,就像理论预测的那样,大多数人的消费随着永久收入的改变而改变,对短期的冲击却很少调整。
The World Cup... and the World Bank are all doing their bit to fight global warming by using the burgeoning but barely regulated business of "carbon neutrality".
世界杯、世界银行都在尽力对抗全球温室效应,都利用新兴而没什么监管的“碳中性”业。
Outsiders called in to refloat the ship found something unexpected: a perfectly-preserved but barely functioning example of early 20th-century corporatist bureaucracy.
找来的“空降兵”想让这艘船继续起航,却发现有些事情出乎意料:这个20世纪早期的社团主义官僚机构虽然保存完好,却几乎不发挥作用。
I speak very poor Hungarian, but barely had a chance to practice it, since as soon as my interlocutor found I was a foreigner they would switch to German or English.
我只会说一点点匈牙利语,但很少有机会练习,当谈话的人发现我是外国人时人们就会转而使用德语或者英语。
He sees with one eye closed and with one eye opened the futility of much that goes on around him and of his own endeavors, but barely enough sense of reality to determine to go through with it.
他把一只眼睁着,一只眼闭着,看透了他四周所发生的事物和他自己的徒劳,而不过仅仅保留着充分的现实感去走完人生应走的道路。
But the food itself was barely digestible, and many team members suffered from diarrhoea or constipation.
但食物本身难以消化,许多队员患了腹泻或便秘。
We've been to fast food outlets like McDonald's, but there are barely any peers there.
我们去过像麦当劳这样的快餐店,但那里几乎没有我们的同龄人。
According to the guidebooks, it should be a three-hour climb, but it'll take us barely two.
根据导游手册,爬上去应该用三个小时,但我们只用了不到两个小时的时间。
I said I could never give up my car, but I barely drive now and am going car-free next month.
我曾说我不可能离开小轿车,但现在几乎不开车并计划下个月不开车。
But it barely seemed to grasp, let alone fix, the ingrained cultural and behavioural problems that help to keep some poor places poor.
但这几乎没有触及促使贫穷地方之所以一直贫穷的那些根深蒂固的文化及行为问题,更不用说去解决了。
We barely spoke but, when she left, I regretted not speaking to her more - and asking her out.
我们几乎没怎么说话,她走之后我开始后悔,为什么没有多跟她聊几句,不然还有机会约她出去。
Sean wanted to become a technicaldiver to explore caves and deep wrecks, but he barely had 20 divesunder his belt.
西恩渴望成为技术潜水员去探索水下洞穴和失事残骸,但是他仅仅在安全措施保护下下潜过20次。
But after barely 24 hours at Fort Monroe, the new commander had already sized up his new constituency.
但是在Monroe要塞仅仅24小时之后,这位新的将军就已经很好的他新的选民群体所在。
But after barely 24 hours at Fort Monroe, the new commander had already sized up his new constituency.
但是在Monroe要塞仅仅24小时之后,这位新的将军就已经很好的他新的选民群体所在。
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