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

• 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。
• The Structure and Breaking of the Poverty Trap in Mountainous Areas
  山区贫困陷阱的构造及其突破
• Turner escaped the poverty trap by drawing.
  透纳通过绘画使自己摆脱了贫困。
• 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。
• The results suggest that China's provincial income disparities are characteristic of persistence and deepening, and the problem of poverty trap become more prominent.
  分析结果表明：中国省区收入差距趋于固化与深化，贫困陷阱问题越来越突出；
• To break out of the poverty trap they need help from the government.
  为了摆脱贫困的处境，他们需要政府的帮助。
• 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
• Second, capital allocation, through a savings of mobilizing and mechanism of credit expansion, short-term inside promoted the rapid economic growth and make economic development from the so-called "poverty trap" constraints, which has played a positive role.
  第二、资金配置通过全民储蓄的动员机制进行信用扩张，短期内促进了经济较快增长，使得经济发展摆脱了所谓贫困陷阱的约束，起到了积极作用。
• Stride Across Poverty Trap Through Institutional Innovation
  通过制度创新跨越贫困陷阱
• 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。