The miser in the story is really wealthy, but he is extremely poor in moral sense.

这个故事中的吝啬鬼在物质上非常富有，但他在道德上却极其贫穷。

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He appeared to be a wealthy gentleman while he really was a poor painter.

他表面上是个有钱的绅士，实际上是个穷画家。

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Here the poor greatly outnumber the wealthy.

在这里，穷人的数量远远超过富人。

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They also say wealthy nations did not offer enough money and technology to help poor countries deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Every day the latter grows more wealthy and densely populated while the South is stationary and growing poor."

北方每天都在变得更富裕,人口也越来越多,而南方,毫无进步,变得越来越贫困"

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The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

But it asks questions about how it would do so, it poses challenges to an independent Scotland which it says other countries are facing, and it reflects the fact that public finances - in wealthy and poor, oil-rich and resource-starved - have a nasty habit of requiring uncomfortable choices.

BBC: Scottish independence: not whether, but how?

While globalization has increased productivity drastically, and made the wealthy in this country a great deal more wealthy, and the poor in developing countries more wealthy, the vast middle has not seen nearly as many gains.

FORBES: The Post-Employee Economy

In follow-up experiments, the researchers asked participants to imagine and write about a hypothetical interaction with someone who was extremely wealthy or extremely poor.

ECONOMIST: They are more selfish