Born in rude and abject poverty, he never had any education, except what he gave himself, till he was approaching manhood.

生于粗陋和赤贫之中，在接近成年之前，除了自学之外，他从未受过任何教育。

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These were in a state of abject poverty.

这些都是在一个国家的赤贫。

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Overcoming oppression and abject poverty and terrible disease is hard.

战胜压迫，卑微的贫穷，以及可怕的疾病才是困难的。

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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."

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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

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Benefits, he says, are a "safety net to stop people falling into abject poverty".

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The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.

ECONOMIST: Angola

Thirty years of conflict had decimated infrastructure, created chronic security risks, encouraged corruption, and left most Afghans in abject poverty.

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