只因为贫穷就使得这群儿童成为警方眼中的罪犯。

The mere fact of being poor makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police.

《牛津词典》

他们因为贫穷和被迫而从事这一职业。

They have taken up the profession because of poverty or were forced.

youdao

他们会反驳到，他信蒙蔽了整个世界，是大家认为红衫军的反抗因为贫穷和受压迫。

They will argue that Mr Thaksin has hoodwinked the world into believing that his red-shirt rabble is poor and oppressed.

youdao

It's bad that, through no fault of their own, some people are poor and other people are rich.

这样是不对的，因为他们自己没有犯错，然而却有些人贫穷有些人富裕。

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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。

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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

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