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1 poverty
['povəti](the condition of being poor: They lived in extreme poverty; the poverty of the soil.) chudoba* * *• nedostatek• nízká úroveň• nedostatečnost• nouze• bída• chudoba• chudost -
2 poverty-line
• hranice chudoby -
3 poverty-stricken
• ubohý• chudobný -
4 below the poverty line
• velmi chudý• za hranicí chudoby -
5 abject
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6 abstract
['æbstrækt] 1. adjective1) ((of a noun) referring to something which exists as an idea and which is not physically real: Truth, poverty and bravery are abstract nouns.) abstraktní2) ((of painting, sculpture etc) concerned with colour, shape, texture etc rather than showing things as they really appear: an abstract sketch of a vase of flowers.) abstraktní2. noun(a summary (of a book, article etc).) souhrn* * *• výtah• obsah• odstranit• odtažitý• oddělit• abstraktní• abstraktní pojem• abstrahovat -
7 discriminate
[di'skrimineit]1) ((with between) to make or see a difference between: It is difficult to discriminate between real and pretended cases of poverty.) rozlišovat2) ((often with against) to treat a certain kind of people differently: He was accused of discriminating against women employees.) diskriminovat•* * *• rozlišovat• diskriminovat -
8 disease
[di'zi:z]((an) illness: She's suffering from kidney disease; poverty and disease.) nemoc, choroba, nákaza* * *• onemocnění• nemoc -
9 embitter
[im'bitə](to make bitter and resentful: embittered by poverty and failure.) roztrpčit* * *• ztrpčit -
10 evil
['i:vl] 1. adjective(very bad; wicked; sinful: evil intentions; an evil man; He looks evil; evil deeds; an evil tongue.) špatný, zlý2. noun1) (wrong-doing, harm or wickedness: He tries to ignore all the evil in the world; Do not speak evil of anyone.) zlo, něco zlého2) (anything evil, eg crime, misfortune etc: London in the eighteenth century was a place of crime, filth, poverty and other evils.) pohroma•- evil-- evilly
- evilness
- evil-doer* * *• zle• zlý• zlo -
11 extravagance
noun His wife's extravagance reduced them to poverty; Food is a necessity, but wine is an extravagance.) marnotratnost* * *• výstřednost• marnotratnost -
12 grind down
(to crush: She was ground down by poverty.) drtit* * *• zbrousit• obrousit -
13 grinding
1) (with a sound of grinding: The train came to a grinding stop.) skřípavý2) (severe: grinding poverty.) tíživý* * *• věčný• zoufalý• skřípající• broušení -
14 hand in hand
(with one person holding the hand of another: The boy and girl were walking along hand in hand; Poverty and crime go hand in hand.) ruku v ruce* * *• ruku v ruce -
15 instance
['instəns](an example, especially of a condition or circumstance: As a social worker, he saw many instances of extreme poverty.) příklad* * *• případ• situace• instance -
16 justify
1) (to prove or show (a person, action, opinion etc) to be just, right, desirable or reasonable: How can the government justify the spending of millions of pounds on weapons when there is so much poverty in the country?) ospravedlnit2) (to be a good excuse for: Your state of anxiety does not justify your being so rude to me.) ospravedlnit•- justification* * *• ospravedlňovat• oprávnit• ospravedlnit -
17 need
[ni:d] 1. negative short form - needn't; verb1) (to require: This page needs to be checked again; This page needs checking again; Do you need any help?) potřebovat2) (to be obliged: You need to work hard if you want to succeed; They don't need to come until six o'clock; She needn't have given me such an expensive present.) muset2. noun1) (something essential, that one must have: Food is one of our basic needs.) potřeba2) (poverty or other difficulty: Many people are in great need.) nouze3) (a reason: There is no need for panic.) důvod•- needless- needlessly
- needy
- a need for
- in need of* * *• potřebovat• potřeba• nouze -
18 pinched
adjective ((of a person's face) looking cold, pale or thin because of cold, poverty etc: Her face was pinched with cold.) ztrhaný* * *• vyzáblý -
19 privation
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20 relate
[rə'leit] 1. verb1) (to tell (a story etc): He related all that had happened to him.) vyprávět2) ((with to) to be about, concerned or connected with: Have you any information relating to the effect of penicillin on mice?) týkat se3) ((with to) to behave towards: He finds it difficult to relate normally to his mother.) navázat vztah (s)•- related- relation
- relationship
- relative 2. adjective1) (compared with something else, or with each other, or with a situation in the past etc: the relative speeds of a car and a train; She used to be rich but now lives in relative poverty.) poměrný2) ((of a pronoun, adjective or clause) referring back to something previously mentioned: the girl who sang the song; the girl who sang the song.) vztažný•* * *• vztahovat• svázat• souviset
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