poverty trap

英 [ˈpɒvəti træp]

美 [ˈpɑːvərti træp]

n.  贫困的牢笼(即使找到工作也依旧贫困，因为政府补贴相应减少)

牛津词典

noun

• 贫困的牢笼（即使找到工作也依旧贫困，因为政府补贴相应减少）
  a situation in which a person stays poor even when they get a job because the money they receive from the government is reduced

柯林斯词典

• 穷困牢笼，贫困陷阱（指穷困者所获得的政府补贴随自己收入的增加而减少，贫穷状况始终得不到改善）
  If someone is in apoverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.

英英释义

noun

• a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off

双语例句

• The range of incomes over which this happens defines the 'poverty trap'.
  发生在这种情况的收入范围，称为贫困陷阱。
• Yet the world development report suggests that the main constraint on development these days may not be a poverty trap but a violence trap.
  然而《世界发展报告》却提出，如今发展所受到的主要约束或许不是贫困陷阱，而是暴力陷阱。
• That basic human desire for a better life is at stake, as are prospects for lifting more than a billion people out of an eternal poverty trap.
  人类渴望更好生活的基本愿望以及使10亿以上人口永久脱离贫困的前景面临威胁。
• Stride Across Poverty Trap Through Institutional Innovation
  通过制度创新跨越贫困陷阱
• The Structure and Breaking of the Poverty Trap in Mountainous Areas
  山区贫困陷阱的构造及其突破
• Human Capital and Economic Growth-A Discussion about Poverty Trap of Economic Growth
  人力资本与经济增长&兼论经济增长贫困陷阱
• Parsing Institutionalized Poverty Trap of Peasantry& An Analysis of Institutionalized Linkage of Agricultural Economic System
  制度化的文学性解析农民面临的制度性贫困陷阱&对农村经济制度的历时关联和共时关联分析
• Human capital is the source of economic growth, and inadequate human capital undermines long-term economic growth, makes economic development stagnant and drags it into the poverty trap.
  人力资本是经济增长的源泉，人力资本不足会损害经济的长期稳定增长，使经济停滞不前，陷入“贫困陷阱”。
• Early in his life he was able to realise a dream of most poor boys, the dream that the way out of the poverty trap is through success in sport.
  他在早年就实现了大多数男孩子的梦想，即凭借体育上的成功来摆脱贫困的处境。
• With investment, Africa can become a great economy, and that will pull people out of the poverty trap.
  有了投资，非洲的经济就能发展起来，人们也能摆脱贫困的桎梏。