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

• 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。
• 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。
• The destruction of ecological environment makes hardly a radical improvement to the poverty and backwardness condition in less-developed regions so that the original resource potential is restrained into full play, at last involved in a trap of "poverty-plundering resources-environmental degradation-further poverty".
  生态环境的破坏不仅难使欠发达地区的贫困落后状况得到根本性地改善，反而会抑制原有资源潜力的充分发挥，最终陷入贫困掠夺资源环境退化进一步贫困的陷阱难以自拔。
• Turner escaped the poverty trap by drawing.
  透纳通过绘画使自己摆脱了贫困。
• 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。
• The Structure and Breaking of the Poverty Trap in Mountainous Areas
  山区贫困陷阱的构造及其突破
• In this article we analyze institutionalized linkage of agricultural economic system, which made Chinese peasantry fall into institutional poverty trap.
  本文主要分析了导致农民贫困的制度安排及其制度间的历时关联和共时关联，揭示农民陷入制度性贫困陷阱的原因。
• 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”。
• 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
• If they are to break out of the poverty trap and prosper, they need – at the very minimum – fertile land, clean water and adequate sanitation.
  他们如要摆脱贫困的束缚和实现繁荣，就至少要有肥沃的土地、清洁的饮水和适当的卫生条件。