"When we see people who are struggling," he says, those assumptions "lead us to the perception that people in poverty are lazy, they don't care, and they haven't made the right decisions."

“当我们看到那些生活在水深火热中的人们，”他说，那些假设“让我们觉得穷人很懒惰，但他们不在乎，也没有做出正确的决定。”

Let us look at some of the latest statistics for neglected tropical diseases that have, for ages, anchored so many African people in poverty.

让我们看一看被忽视的热带疾病的一些最新统计数据； 这些热带病多年来困扰着非洲，使许多人深陷贫困。

These diseases anchor large numbers of people in poverty.

这些疾病使数目很多的人们陷入贫困。

And he doesn't seem to spend much time worrying about people in poverty.

他似乎并不花太多时间为贫困人口着想。

Under the revised formula, the West had the most people in poverty at 19.2 percent.

——根据修订了的准则，西部贫困人最多，为19.2%。

Those are the sorts of things we need to break down the statistics the billion people in poverty.

我们需要用这些事例，让人们对几十亿人口，这样一个数据有具体的认识。

Because of a rapid increase in population, the absolute number of people in poverty has probably risen.

由于人口快速增长，贫困人口的绝对数字可能已经上升。

Or it can further ensnare people in poverty and environmental degradations, creating a vicious cycle.

反之则可能使人民进一步陷入贫困和日益恶化的环境中，从而导致一种恶性循环。

The World Bank estimates each 1 percent drop in growth could trap another 20 million people in poverty.

世界银行估计，增长每下降1%，就会有另外2000万人口陷入贫困。

The per capita GDP of China ranks after the 100th in the world. The number of people in poverty ranks No. 2 in the world.

目前，中国人均GDP排在世界100位之后，贫困人口总数在世界上排名第二。

America's cities, meanwhile, had 12.7 million people in poverty last year, up about 5% from the year before and 23% since 2000.

与此同时，美国的城市居民中，去年有1270万人处于贫困状态，比前年增加了5%，比2000年增加了23%。

"Culture of poverty", a culture originating directly from economic poverty, refers to a particular culture system to people in poverty.

“贫困文化”是特指处于贫困环境中的穷人所具有的特定文化体系，是直接根源于经济贫困的文化。

That is strong by global standards but not strong enough for India to raise living standards for its hundreds of millions people in poverty, economists say.

经济学家们表示，按照国际标准来看，这样的增长还算强劲，不过对于印度自身来说，这一增速并不足以帮助其国内数亿贫困人口提高生活水平。

"When people enter into that pattfern of thinking,"says Kendall Taylor, "it's cognitively comfortable to make sense of issues of poverty in that way.

“当人们进入这种思维模式时，”肯德尔·泰勒说，“在认知上，用这种方式来理解贫困问题就会让人心安理得。”

In reality, there are still a large amount of people living in extreme poverty.

实际上，仍有很多人生活在极度贫困之中。

Indeed, people tend to dip in and out of poverty, perhaps due to unexpected obstacles like losing a job, or when hours of a low-wage job fluctuate.

的确，人们在贫困线上浮浮沉沉，也许是因为遇到意想不到的阻碍，比如失去工作，或是低报酬工作的时长不稳定。

There is a great demand for volunteers in Africa because many people live in poverty.

志愿者在非洲的需求量很大，因为很多人生活在贫困中。

People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level.

生活在中度贫困中的人们拥有维持生计的物资，但只是非常基本的生活物资。

Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty.

在那些生活贫困的人中，老年人占有很大的比例。

Many elderly people live in poverty.

许多老年人生活于贫困之中。

Many people live in poverty through no fault of their own.

很多人生活贫困并非他们自己有什么过错。

According to the Census Bureau, 38 million people in the U.S. are living below the official poverty thresholds.

根据美国人口普查局的数据，美国有3800万人生活在官方贫困线以下。

In short, people who live in extreme poverty do not have even the minimum resources to support themselves and their families.

简而言之，极度贫困的人甚至连养活自己和家人的最低限度的资源都没有。

If we encourage our young people to believe in the future, and give them solid evidence for believing we'll find both crime and poverty shrinking to manageable proportions.

如果我们鼓励我们的年轻人对未来充满信心，并为他们的信念提供确凿的证据，我们就会发现犯罪和贫困都将减少到可控的程度。

They sell the machines to governments of countries that have many people live in poverty.

他们把机器卖给那些有很多贫困人口的国家的政府。

He made up his mind to develop the tea industry in order to help the local people get out of poverty.

于是他决心发展茶业，以帮助当地人民摆脱贫困。

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with a particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty.

它的主要任务是增进人类福祉，帮助满足所有人的基本需求，且特别关注那些脆弱、受压迫和生活贫困的人。