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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

穷人 [qióngrén]
  1. 1. poor people; the poor

Examples

穷人进了收租院,就象进了鬼门关。
For the poor peasants, to enter that rent-collection courtyard was like entering the gate of hell.
旧社会哪有咱穷人的活路。
What way out was there for us poor folk in the old society?
莫扎特是埋在穷人的乱葬岗子上的。
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
那些乱坟堆,都是解放前穷人的墓地。
Those mounds were the tombs of poor people before 1945.
富人与穷人在生活质量上的差异可谓是九天九地。
The rich and poor live drastically different lives in terms of quality.
乡里的土财主们把穷人统称为愚氓。
The rich men in the village call every poor person a fool.
穷人
山脚下过去是穷人的丛冢。
to help the poor
救济穷人
It's surprising how poor people have no anger against the government.
真是奇怪,穷人是如何做到对政府没有怨气的呢。

Word Decomposition


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