Working in the slums brought her up against the realities of poverty.
在贫民窟工作使她直面了解贫困的现实。
Visitors to the slums were clearly shocked to see so many families living in want.
到过贫民窟的人看到有这么多的家庭生活在贫苦之中显然震惊不已。
Poverty and bad housing conditions are much in evidence in the city slums.
在城市贫民窟里,贫穷和糟糕的住房状况是显而易见的。
Living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away.
生活在贫民窟,意味着他们没有清理垃圾的基础设施,没有安全的饮水供应。
A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.
有十亿人生活在贫民窟,虽然与上面提到的十亿人不相同,但他们之间有重叠部分。
In Oliver Twist, he traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.
在《雾都孤儿》一书中,他追踪描述了一个孤儿从济贫院到伦敦高发犯罪贫民窟的生活经历。
Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.
大多数非洲城市居民生活在贫民窟里;移居到城市的人们的生活状况往往并不比他们在农村时好多少。
Many groups have clustered in slums in a process anthropologists call sedentarization.
有很多社会群体都聚集在平民窟,人类学家称之为定居化。
She declaimed against the high rents in slums.
她激烈抨击贫民窟中昂贵的房租。
The landlords dishoused the inhabitants of the slums.
房东们把贫民区居民们赶出了房子。
Hordes of youngsters cram the slums with little hope of a job.
成群的年轻人集聚贫民窟,鲜有工作的机会。
And they worry more about spreading slums than expanding skylines.
它们更担心的是贫民区的增加而不是摩天大楼的增加。
Slums are a function of successful labor markets and failed land markets.
贫民区是成功的劳动力市场和失灵的土地市场的一个函数。
Few had basic plumbing, and soon even the wealthier hutongs had deteriorated into slums.
由于没有基本的排水管道,很快就连较富裕的胡同也彻彻底底地变成了的贫民窟。
Ms Cook says that the scheme misses a trick by not building schools and redeveloping slums.
库克认为这一方案错失了建设学校及改造贫民窟的机会。
The price of nearby apartments has soared. Other slums are also getting similar make-overs.
附近的公寓价格也有所上涨,其他贫民窟也实现了类似的大翻身。
But most are in poor countries and many, if not most, of their inhabitants live in slums.
但这些城市多数是在贫穷国家,并且即便不是大部分,仍有数量众多的城市居民生活在极度的贫困之中。
Water Aid is working in 17 of the city's 380 registered slums, providing water and sanitation.
沃特·艾迪为市里380户登记在册的贫民窟中的17户提供水和卫生设备。
The food crisis of the past 18 months has sharpened worries about how to feed the teeming slums.
贫民区人满为患,如何向该地居民提供食物已成难题,而过去18个月的食品危机更加剧了人们对此问题的担忧。
Their slums are filled with desperatelypoor people who have fled worse poverty in the countryside.
那里的贫民区住满了不顾一切逃离最贫穷乡村的穷人。
The following decade saw an influx of heavy weapons into the city's slums and the murder rate soared.
接下来的十年,重型武器的涌入这座城市的贫民窟,谋杀率飙升。
Then in 1964, Brazil passed a law to encourage landless peasants to leave the slums and develop the interior.
直到1964年,巴西通过了一项法律,鼓励没有土地的农民走出贫民窟,自主开发国内的土地。
These, the bank thinks, are the real problems of urbanisation, not the multiplication of slums or congestion.
世行认为,城市化的真正症结就在于此,而非与日俱增的贫民窟或交通堵塞。
Many wealthy countries have growing urban slums that drain health resources and strain the social welfare system.
许多富裕国家有日益扩大的城市贫民区,耗尽了卫生资源并对社会福利制度造成压力。
It is a vow that will be hard to keep, except as part of a broad effort to improve life in the world's expanding slums.
这是个很难遵守的誓言,除非将其纳入到努力改善世界上不断扩大的贫民窟的贫民的生活的项目中去。
The MIT researchers found that as many as one-third more businesses had opened in slums which had a microcredit branch.
麻省理工的研究者们发现三分之一以上的商业都开设在拥有小额贷款银行支行的贫民窟。
The MIT researchers found that as many as one-third more businesses had opened in slums which had a microcredit branch.
麻省理工的研究者们发现三分之一以上的商业都开设在拥有小额贷款银行支行的贫民窟。
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