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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• Eco-tourism: An Approach to Escaping From the Poverty Trap in Karst Mountains of Southwestern China; Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades.
  生态旅游：西南喀斯特山区摆脱贫困陷阱之路现在他朝着太阳驶去，开始了穿越喀斯喀特山脉的漫长而曲折的路程。
• The Experimental Analysis of the Theory of Poverty Trap in the CES Economic Growth Models
  CES经济增长模型中贫困陷阱理论的实证分析
• 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。
• Beware of the poverty gap trap.
  小心贫富差距的陷阱。
• 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。
• The Structure and Breaking of the Poverty Trap in Mountainous Areas
  山区贫困陷阱的构造及其突破