“poor”在英语中的释义

adjective

1. With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.

   • We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.

2. Of low quality.

   • That was a poor performance.

3. (attributive only) Worthy of pity.

   • Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
   • This poor little puppy got a nasty snake bite.

4. Deficient in a specified way.

   • Cow's milk is poor in iron.

5. Inadequate, insufficient.

   • I received a poor reward for all my hard work.

6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

noun

1. (with the) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

   • Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
   • This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like Brooks for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting—this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire Atlas to Shrug his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically Brooks's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"—but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.
   • The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.
   • The poor are always with us.
   • The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.

2. (card games) the second-to-last placer in Tycoon

noun

1. (countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person.

   • The poors are at it again.

2. (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.

   • It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.

   • The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.

3. (obsolete) To call poor.