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121 бедность не порок
посл.poverty is no sin (crime), poverty is not a shame <, but the being ashamed of it is>Любим Карпыч.
Что он беден-то! Эх, кабы я беден был, я бы человек был. Бедность не порок. (А. Островский, Бедность не порок) — Lubim Karpych: What if he is poor, eh? If I had been poor, I should have been a man. Poverty is no crime.Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > бедность не порок
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122 бедному жениться и ночь коротка
Set phrase: love lasts as long as money endures (a poor man's happiness does not last long), there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip п when a pauper gets married at last, even the night goes too fast, when poverty comes in at the door (or doors), love flies leaps at the window (or windows), when poverty comes in at the door (or doors), love flies out at the window (or windows), who marrieth for love without money, hath good nights and sorry daysУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > бедному жениться и ночь коротка
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123 бедствующий
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124 безысходная нужда
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125 бороться с нищетой
1) General subject: keep the wolf from the door2) Makarov: work against poverty, fight povertyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > бороться с нищетой
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126 быть замученным нищетой
General subject: be ground down by poverty, to be ground down by povertyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > быть замученным нищетой
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127 в тисках нищеты
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128 впасть в крайнюю нищету
General subject: be reduced to abject poverty, to be reduced to abject povertyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > впасть в крайнюю нищету
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Poverty — • Discusses poverty as a concept and canonical discipline Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Poverty Poverty † … Catholic encyclopedia
Poverty — Pov er*ty (p[o^]v [ e]r*t[y^]), n. [OE. poverte, OF. povert[ e], F. pauvret[ e], fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper poor. See {Poor}.] 1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. Swathed … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
poverty — pov‧er‧ty [ˈpɒvəti ǁ ˈpɑːvərti] noun [uncountable] 1. the situation or experience of being poor: • 86% of the population lives in poverty. • a major anti poverty initiative 2. the poverty line the income below which people are officially… … Financial and business terms
poverty — poverty, indigence, penury, want, destitution, privation all denote the state of one who is poor or without enough to live upon. Poverty, the most comprehensive of these terms, typically implies such deficiency of resources that one is deprived… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
poverty — [päv′ər tē] n. [ME poverte < OFr povreté < L paupertas < pauper, POOR] 1. the condition or quality of being poor; indigence; need 2. deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy… … English World dictionary
poverty — late 12c., from O.Fr. poverte, from L. paupertatem (nom. paupertas) poverty, from pauper (see POOR (Cf. poor)). Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial… … Etymology dictionary
poverty — poverty, poorness Poverty is the usual noun corresponding to poor in its meanings to do with lack of wealth or lack of things regarded like wealth (e.g. poverty of inspiration). Poorness is not often used and is more usual in meanings to do with… … Modern English usage
poverty — I noun absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence … Law dictionary
poverty — [n] want; extreme need, often financial abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment,… … New thesaurus
poverty — ► NOUN 1) the state of being extremely poor. 2) the state of being insufficient in amount. ORIGIN Old French poverte, from Latin pauper poor … English terms dictionary
Poverty — Street children sleeping in Mulberry Street – Jacob Riis photo New York, United States (1890) Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.[1] Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford … Wikipedia