The new United States was a pitifully poor nation, and its western lands were one of its principal assets.

新成立的美国很穷，西部土地是其主要资产之一。

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Because Vanuatu is a poor nation, where many people live in thatched houses, aide workers say they're dealing with something worse than a worst case scenario.

由于瓦努阿图是一个贫穷国家，那里的人们居住的是茅草屋，救援人员说他们正在处理的问题比最糟糕的情况还要糟糕。

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The plant is just one example of Japan's single-minded dedication to reducing energy use, a commitment that dates back to the oil shocks of the 1970s that shook this resource-poor nation.

taiheiyo石灰厂用的这个keihin机器设备仅仅是一个日本对减少能量使用的共同贡献的一个例子，这追溯到20世纪70年代油价的上涨刺激资源贫乏国家开发减少能量使用的方案。

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His supporters, largely from the rural and urban poor, accuse the military and the nation's traditional elite of ignoring their concerns.

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And Red Shirts say those insults are used as an excuse to deny rural voters and the poor a say in the nation's politics.

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Salinas says, unapologetically, that his bank charges customers--the poorest inhabitants of a poor nation--an average interest rate of 50% annually, or 1% per week.

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Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.

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We are a poor nation getting poorer and the main task of a post referendum Wales is to focus determination, policy and resources on reversing that trend, decisively.

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