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

• Human Capital and Economic Growth-A Discussion about Poverty Trap of Economic Growth
  人力资本与经济增长&兼论经济增长贫困陷阱
• Combined with the life cycle theory, poverty trap theory etc, this paper proposes that how important it is to reduce asset poverty. It provides theoretical support for inclusive growth.
  结合生命周期理论、贫困陷阱理论，指出资产脱贫对贫困人口的重要意义，为包容性增长提供了理论支持。
• 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。
• The results suggest that China's provincial income disparities are characteristic of persistence and deepening, and the problem of poverty trap become more prominent.
  分析结果表明：中国省区收入差距趋于固化与深化，贫困陷阱问题越来越突出；
• To break out of the poverty trap they need help from the government.
  为了摆脱贫困的处境，他们需要政府的帮助。
• 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”。
• Stride Across Poverty Trap Through Institutional Innovation
  通过制度创新跨越贫困陷阱
• Turner escaped the poverty trap by drawing.
  透纳通过绘画使自己摆脱了贫困。
• The destruction of ecological environment makes hardly a radical improvement to the poverty and backwardness condition in less-developed regions so that the original resource potential is restrained into full play, at last involved in a trap of "poverty-plundering resources-environmental degradation-further poverty".
  生态环境的破坏不仅难使欠发达地区的贫困落后状况得到根本性地改善，反而会抑制原有资源潜力的充分发挥，最终陷入贫困掠夺资源环境退化进一步贫困的陷阱难以自拔。
• 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。