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sickle-cell anemia
disparity between rich and poor
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
to help the poor
to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
poor and rich
HSK 7-9
poverty-stricken
impoverished / poverty
HSK 6
destitute; poverty-stricken
poverty-stricken / poor
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
to lift oneself out of poverty
to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
poor people
to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
(coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
anemia
sickle cell anemia
(dialect) to talk nonsense / garrulous
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
cerebral anemia
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
penniless
extremely poor but not destitute
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
low grade ore
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
talkative / garrulous / loquacious / flippant / jocular
(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
thalassemia
slum area / ghetto
thalassemia (medicine)
garrulous and sharp-tongued
poor region / impoverished area
aplastic anemia (med.)
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
poor and lowly
to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions
(Internet slang) (wryly jocular) poverty limits my power of imagination / (fig.) flabbergasted by the antics of the wealthy / the rich live in another world / (abbr. for 貧窮限制了我的想象力|贫穷限制了我的想象力)
rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主 and poor peasant 貧農|贫农
the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
poor and feeble
to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
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poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous
without two nickels to rub together (idiom) / impoverished
it is no disgrace to be poor (idiom)
poverty rate
poor peasants (in Marxism)
blood loss anemia
slum housing
mean / stingy
poor peasant
robbing the rich to help the poor
poor in oil
poor but upright / destitute
impoverished / lacking / deficient / limited / meager / impoverishment / lack / deficiency
poverty compounded by ill health (idiom)
beset by poverty and illness (idiom)
anemic necrosis
waste liquid / liquid with precipitate skimmed off
verbose / garrulous
small breasts; flat-chested
poor Taoist
mean / stingy / garrulous
country poor in oil
depleted uranium (D-38)
garrulous and sharp-tongued
poor monk (humble term used by monk of himself)
not shaken by poverty / to preserve one's ambitions although destitute
Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of the poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女|贫女
barren / infertile / poor
to rise from poverty and become prosperous (idiom) / poverty alleviation
aplastic anemia
(category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
anemia


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