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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Even the offer of us dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.

在赤贫的环境中，就连美元也只能换来束手无策的表情，原因很简单，那里买不到任何食物。

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Globalization has clearly been responsible for lifting at least 2 billion people from abject poverty to extremely low levels of middle class.

全球化进程很显明地使得至少20亿人从极端贫困上升到中产阶级的最低端水平。

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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."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

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".

BBC: How little money can a person live on?

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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