What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.

我在你们这个年龄的时候，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

youdao

Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.

此外，决策者们没有正确认识这一原因：并不是上述那样的贫穷，而是不平等。

youdao

In contrast, suppose you give a reasonable argument: that full-time workers should not have to live in poverty.

相比之下，假设你提出一个合理的论点：全职工人不应该生活在贫困中。

youdao

"The mainstream media does not usually cover poverty or homelessness too much, unless someone dies or there's a big rally or something."

VOA: special.2011.02.25

I do not fear poverty and death does not frighten me.

无惧贫困,且死亡也吓不倒我。

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There are people who are dying of diseases for which there are known cures because they don't have the best medicine, which are often not even expensive but they're living in such poverty.

有些人因疾病而死,而这些疾病是可以被治愈的,但是他们没有最好的药物,有些药甚至并不是很昂贵,但是他们实在生活太困窘了

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He taught that man's principal woe was not poverty, or war, but the abandonment of the divine.

ECONOMIST: After Pope John Paul II

Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.

ECONOMIST: Social inequality

Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).

BBC: In Hong Kong, a holiday shop in a Mongolian yurt