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

• 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。
• 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”。
• With investment, Africa can become a great economy, and that will pull people out of the poverty trap.
  有了投资，非洲的经济就能发展起来，人们也能摆脱贫困的桎梏。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• The range of incomes over which this happens defines the 'poverty trap'.
  发生在这种情况的收入范围，称为贫困陷阱。
• The Structure and Breaking of the Poverty Trap in Mountainous Areas
  山区贫困陷阱的构造及其突破
• Turner escaped the poverty trap by drawing.
  透纳通过绘画使自己摆脱了贫困。
• The Experimental Analysis of the Theory of Poverty Trap in the CES Economic Growth Models
  CES经济增长模型中贫困陷阱理论的实证分析