Poverty trap
n. 贫困陷阱
📖 牛津释义
poverty trap
situation in which one is unable to improve one's income because one depends on state benefits that are reduced as one's earnings increase 贫困陷阱（受政府津贴者因工资增加而津贴减少, 无法改善经济状况）.
🧩 词语组成解析
trap
[træp]
vt. 诱骗;使受限制;困住;使（水与气体等）分离;
n. 圈套;（对付人的）计谋;（练习射击用的）抛靶器;（捕捉动物的）夹子;
vi. 设陷阱;装捕捉机;设圈套;
🗣️ 情景例句
Eleven o'clock, approve the sketches for the toy spaceship.
十一点钟， 批示玩具太空船的草图。
Get me a hammer from the kitchen,will you?
从厨房拿给我一个榔头好吗？
India-born N.Damodar Reddy's tiny California company reopened an AT
T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri.