It perpetuates the vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty that blights so many areas of Britain.

贫穷构成了一个碌碌无为、依赖他人、体弱多病、缺乏目标、没有家教和幼年贫困的恶性循环并影响着英国很多地区。批判性的思维基本不起作用。

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The result is a “vicious cycle where poverty causes malnutrition, and malnutrition perpetuates poverty, “says Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, vice president of the World Bank’s Human Development Network.

营养不良的后果是“这样一个恶性循环：贫困会导致营养不良，而营养不良又会致使贫困长期存在，”世行人类发展局副行长Tamar Manuelyan Atinc说。

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There is a vicious cycle of poverty that prevents poor communities being able to pay for treatment, coupled with endemic malaria that depresses economies in the communities most affected.

这儿存在一个恶性循环即贫困阻止了贫穷地区购买治疗物品的能力，与此相配的是当地的疟疾又最大程度的摧毁了当地的经济。

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Galmudug regional government Minister of Planning Omar Mohamud warns that not implementing a long-term solution to the water problem will fuel the vicious cycle of droughts, hunger,and violence and keep the Somali people in the iron grip of poverty.

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"Because these girls and boys do not have access to education, they become trapped in low-skilled, low-income jobs, which further push them into the vicious cycle of inter-generational poverty, " he said.

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Of course, since poverty and education are so tightly interwoven it becomes a vicious cycle very quickly.

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