People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order.

如果为贫穷而苦恼，或者被剥夺了基础教育，或者没有生活在法律法规的框架下，那么人们就不能拥有个人自由，自主行事。

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Colleges in mountain areas should not be neglected, when we discuss poverty-stricken students.

关注贫困大学生，不应忽视山区高校；在资助贫困生的同时，必须注重思想教育。

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While this certainly could be a jackpot for the poverty-stricken country, it could also come at the price of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.

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Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: clean water, electricity and fuel.

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Now, as the European Union wonders how best to deal with its sullen, poverty-stricken eastern neighbours, his thoughts on culture and history could hardly be more topical.

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