"poverty trap" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
贫穷陷阱 pín qióng xiàn jǐng poverty trap
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
陷阱 xiàn jǐng pitfall / snare / trap syn
圈套 quān tào trap / snare / trick syn
骗局 騙局 piàn jú a swindle / a trap / a racket / a scam / CL:場|场[chang3] syn
引诱 引誘 yǐn yòu to coerce (sb into doing sth bad) / to lure (into a trap) / to seduce syn
贫困 貧困 pín kùn impoverished / poverty syn
沦落 淪落 lún luò to degenerate / impoverished / to fall (into poverty) / to be reduced (to begging) syn
穷困 窮困 qióng kùn destitute / wretched poverty syn
牢笼 牢籠 láo lóng cage / trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals) / fig. bonds (of wrong ideas) / shackles (of past misconceptions) / to trap / to shackle syn
穷光蛋 窮光蛋 qióng guāng dàn poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond syn
陷于 陷於 xiàn yú caught in (a bad situation) / to fall into (trap etc) syn
窘迫 jiǒng pò poverty-stricken / very poor / hard-pressed / in a predicament / embarrassed syn
寒酸 hán suān wretched / poverty-stricken / unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc) syn
诱捕 誘捕 yòu bǔ to trap (an animal) / to lure (a suspect) into a trap
沙坑 shā kēng sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
中计 中計 zhòng jì to fall into a trap / to be taken in
作茧自缚 作繭自縛 zuò jiǎn zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist by his own petard syn
美人计 美人計 měi rén jì honey trap / sexual entrapment / CL:條|条[tiao2]
贫苦 貧苦 pín kǔ poverty-stricken / poor syn
饥寒交迫 飢寒交迫 jī hán jiāo pò beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty syn
贫寒 貧寒 pín hán poor / poverty-stricken / impoverished syn
赤贫 赤貧 chì pín poverty-stricken syn
困顿 困頓 kùn dùn fatigued / exhausted / poverty-stricken / in straitened circumstances syn
哭穷 哭窮 kū qióng to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
扶贫 扶貧 fú pín assistance to the poor / poverty alleviation syn
中招 zhòng zhāo (martial arts) to get hit / to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap / to be taken in
脱贫 脫貧 tuō pín to lift oneself out of poverty
脱贫致富 脫貧致富 tuō pín zhì fù to rise from poverty and become prosperous (idiom) / poverty alleviation syn
自投罗网 自投羅網 zì tóu luó wǎng to walk right into the trap syn
坑害 kēng hài to trap / to frame syn
设局 設局 shè jú to set a trap
糟糠 zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband syn
xiàn pitfall / trap / to get stuck / to sink / to cave in / to frame (false charge) / to capture (a city in battle) / to fall (to the enemy) / defect syn
zhào to cover / to spread over / a cover / a shade / a hood / bamboo fish trap / bamboo chicken coop / (Tw) (coll.) to protect / to have sb's back / (Tw) (coll.) awesome / incredible / (Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住[zhao4de2zhu4]) to have things under control / to be able to handle it syn
食不果腹 shí bù guǒ fù lit. food not filling the stomach (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken syn
shàn bamboo fish trap / used in names of places connected with Shantou 汕頭|汕头[Shan4 tou2]
jǐng pitfall / trap syn
陷坑 xiàn kēng pitfall / pit as animal trap syn
设圈套 設圈套 shè quān tào to scam / to set a trap / to set up a scheme to defraud people
quán bamboo fish trap
天罗地网 天羅地網 tiān luó dì wǎng inescapable net (idiom) / trap / dragnet syn
迷魂阵 迷魂陣 mí hún zhèn stratagem to trap sb / to bewitch and trap
衣不蔽体 衣不蔽體 yī bù bì tǐ lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken syn
吐丝自缚 吐絲自縛 tǔ sī zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
造茧自缚 造繭自縛 zào jiǎn zì fù to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom) / enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising / hoist with his own petard
人穷志短 人窮志短 rén qióng zhì duǎn poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
反裘负刍 反裘負芻 fǎn qiú fù chú lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom) / fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work / fig. to act stupidly
家贫如洗 家貧如洗 jiā pín rú xǐ extreme poverty (idiom) / destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
筚门闺窦 篳門閨竇 bì mén guī dòu wicker door, hole window (idiom) / fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty
荜门圭窦 蓽門圭竇 bì mén guī dòu wicker door, hole window (idiom) / fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty
衣单食薄 衣單食薄 yī dān shí bó thin coat, meager food (idiom) / life of wretched poverty / destitute
贫病交加 貧病交加 pín bìng jiāo jiā poverty compounded by ill health (idiom) syn
安贫乐道 安貧樂道 ān pín lè dào to be content with poverty and strive for virtue (idiom) syn
贫病交迫 貧病交迫 pín bìng jiāo pò beset by poverty and illness (idiom) syn
饭糗茹草 飯糗茹草 fàn qiǔ rú cǎo lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty
狼井 láng jǐng wolf trap (trou de loup), medieval defensive trap consisting of a concealed pit with sharp spikes
饵雷 餌雷 ěr léi baited trap / booby-trap
四极离子阱质谱分析法 四極離子阱質譜分析法 quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer / quadrupole ion trap
笑贫不笑娼 笑貧不笑娼 xiào pín bù xiào chāng the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty / lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
站起来反贫穷 站起來反貧窮 zhàn qǐ lái fǎn pín qióng Stand Up Against Poverty, Stand Up for the Millennium Development Goals / Stand Up Against Poverty
贫穷和经济发展问题千年项目第1工作队 貧窮和經濟發展問題千年項目第1工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development / Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development
贫穷和经济发展问题第1工作队 貧窮和經濟發展問題第1工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development / Task Force 1 on Poverty and Economic Development
贫穷深度比 貧窮深度比 poverty gap ratio / poverty gap index
贫穷深度指数 貧窮深度指數 poverty gap ratio / poverty gap index
赤贫妇女问题讨论会 赤貧婦女問題討論會 Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty, Integration of Women's Concerns in National Development Planning / Seminar on Women in Extreme Poverty
减贫 減貧 jiǎn pín to reduce poverty / poverty reduction
duàn bamboo fish trap
huò trap
yǎn to cover / trap
诱陷 誘陷 yòu xiàn to lure into a trap
mín animal trap
中圈套 zhòng quān tào to fall in a trap
套口供 tào kǒu gòng to trap a suspect into a confession
得鱼忘筌 得魚忘筌 dé yú wàng quán lit. catch fish then forget the trap (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) / fig. to take help for granted syn
捉捕器 zhuō bǔ qì trap (for animals etc)
旅游热点 旅遊熱點 lǚ yóu rè diǎn a hot tourist attraction / a tourist trap
渔笼 漁籠 yú lóng fishing pot (trap)
to comb / fine-toothed comb / trap for prawns
身陷牢笼 身陷牢籠 shēn xiàn láo lóng fallen into a trap
陷入牢笼 陷入牢籠 xiàn rù láo lóng to fall into a trap / ensnared
隐蔽强迫下载 隱蔽強迫下載 yǐn bì qiǎng pò xià zài drive-by download (a form of malware booby-trap) / silent drive-by download
饵敌 餌敵 ěr dí to lure the enemy / to trap
流动性陷阱 流動性陷阱 liú dòng xìng xiàn jǐng liquidity trap
暗色岩 trap / traprock
地中海金枪鱼陷阱网 madrague / tuna trap
收集性能试验 shōu jí xìng néng shì yàn trap-test
捕蚊器 bǔ wén qì mosquito trap
诱杀装置 誘殺裝置 yòu shā zhuāng zhì booby trap
虾笼 蝦籠 xiā lǒng pot / trap
陷阱笼 陷阱籠 xiàn jǐng lǒng pot / trap
诱虫作物 誘虫作物 yòu chóng zuò wù trap crop
冷阱 lěng jǐng cold trap / desublimer
凝华器 凝華器 cold trap / desublimer
沉淀物捕集器 chén diàn wù bǔ jí qì sediment trap
待发诱杀装置 待發誘殺裝置 armed trap
拆除引信的诱杀装置 拆除引信的誘殺裝置 disarmed trap
陷阱网 陷阱網 trap net
失效诱杀装置 失效誘殺裝置 neutralized trap
盗采 盜採 dào cǎi to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally / illegal mining (or logging etc)
隔油池 gé yóu chí grease trap
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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