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impoverished / poverty
HSK 6
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
poor and rich
HSK 7-9
anemia
poor and lowly
to lift oneself out of poverty
disparity between rich and poor
assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
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poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous
poverty-stricken / poor
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
impoverished / lacking / deficient / limited / meager / impoverishment / lack / deficiency
barren / infertile / poor
rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主 and poor peasant 貧農|贫农
poor monk (humble term used by monk of himself)
poor but upright / destitute
penniless
poor people
talkative / garrulous / loquacious / flippant / jocular
poverty-stricken
to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
poor in oil
to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
poor and feeble
small breasts; flat-chested
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
poverty compounded by ill health (idiom)
garrulous and sharp-tongued
extremely poor but not destitute
mean / stingy / garrulous
verbose / garrulous
to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
depleted uranium (D-38)
waste liquid / liquid with precipitate skimmed off
mean / stingy
(dialect) to talk nonsense / garrulous
anemia
slum area / ghetto
not shaken by poverty / to preserve one's ambitions although destitute
thalassemia (medicine)
poor region / impoverished area
(coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
country poor in oil
to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions
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)
Qin Taoyu, Tang poet, author of the poem "A Poor Woman" 貧女|贫女
(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)
aplastic anemia
thalassemia
slum housing
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
without two nickels to rub together (idiom) / impoverished
aplastic anemia (med.)
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
to rob the rich to help the poor
blood loss anemia
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
robbing the rich to help the poor
to help the poor
to rise from poverty and become prosperous (idiom) / poverty alleviation
cerebral anemia
it is no disgrace to be poor (idiom)
garrulous and sharp-tongued
poverty rate
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
beset by poverty and illness (idiom)
low grade ore
destitute; poverty-stricken
anemic necrosis
poor peasant
poor Taoist
(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)
poor peasants (in Marxism)
sickle cell anemia
sickle-cell anemia


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