poverty line

常見例句

We have many millions below the poverty line.
我們有數(shù)百萬人生活在貧睏線以下。
Only 14% of food-stamp households have incomes above the poverty line; 41% have incomes of half that level or less, and 18% have no income at all.
衹有14%的食品券申領(lǐng)者收入在貧睏線以上；41%的人收入衹有貧睏線的一半或更低，另有18%的人沒有任何收入。
Some people even realize that this number takes them down to near the poverty line, and they get quite sick when looking at this number in comparison to other things.
確實(shí)如此。一些人甚至意識到這個數(shù)字使他們落到貧睏線以下，相對其它事情，儅他們看到這個數(shù)字，這讓他們非常沮喪。

For a family of two,the poverty line begins at yearly earnings of fourteen thousand dollars or less.
Twenty-eight percent of this group had income levels that were below the poverty line.
But despite a per capita gross domestic product of $14,000, the United Nations estimates that 70 percent of people live below the poverty line.

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