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impoverished / poverty
HSK 6
beset by poverty and illness (idiom)
blood loss anemia
poor and rich
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
poverty-stricken / poor
to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom)
assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation
poverty compounded by ill health (idiom)
depleted uranium (D-38)
disparity between rich and poor
poor peasant
slum area / ghetto
poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished
impoverished / lacking / deficient / limited / meager / impoverishment / lack / deficiency
(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)
poverty rate
slum housing
to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)
poor in oil
poor Taoist
(coll.) to wag one's tongue / to indulge in idle gossip and silly jokes / to chatter endlessly / to speak glibly
sickle cell anemia
cerebral anemia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *貧* | 貧* | *貧
poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous
penniless
anemia
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
garrulous and sharp-tongued
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
robbing the rich to help the poor
garrulous and sharp-tongued
poor region / impoverished area
waste liquid / liquid with precipitate skimmed off
small breasts; flat-chested
mean / stingy / garrulous
aplastic anemia (med.)
mean / stingy
to lift oneself out of poverty
poor and lowly
thalassemia (medicine)
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
poverty-stricken
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
to help the poor
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 monk (humble term used by monk of himself)
destitute; poverty-stricken
barren / infertile / poor
to rise from poverty and become prosperous (idiom) / poverty alleviation
talkative / garrulous / loquacious / flippant / jocular
anemic necrosis
without two nickels to rub together (idiom) / impoverished
to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
to help the poor / almsgiving for the needy / to assist poor households or poor regions
poor people
not shaken by poverty / to preserve one's ambitions although destitute
(dialect) to talk nonsense / garrulous
poor peasants (in Marxism)
sickle-cell anemia
to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
country poor in oil
anemia
thalassemia
verbose / garrulous
(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 but upright / destitute
poor and feeble
low grade ore
extremely poor but not destitute
aplastic anemia
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute


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