Plagued by a widening gap between rich and poor, the peasants in rural China can only rely on themselves to go abroad in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty and disease.

中国农村贫富两极差距越来越大，农民受贫穷与疾病煎熬，要脱贫，唯有靠偷渡国外打工。

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There is a vicious cycle of poverty that prevents poor communities being able to pay for treatment, coupled with endemic malaria that depresses economies in the communities most affected.

这儿存在一个恶性循环即贫困阻止了贫穷地区购买治疗物品的能力，与此相配的是当地的疟疾又最大程度的摧毁了当地的经济。

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It perpetuates the vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty that blights so many areas of Britain.

贫穷构成了一个碌碌无为、依赖他人、体弱多病、缺乏目标、没有家教和幼年贫困的恶性循环并影响着英国很多地区。批判性的思维基本不起作用。

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Galmudug regional government Minister of Planning Omar Mohamud warns that not implementing a long-term solution to the water problem will fuel the vicious cycle of droughts, hunger,and violence and keep the Somali people in the iron grip of poverty.

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Leading an international drive to unburden hopelessly indebted Third World countries from onerous interest payments that lock them into a vicious cycle of poverty, Clinton pledged the loan relief two years ago.

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"Because these girls and boys do not have access to education, they become trapped in low-skilled, low-income jobs, which further push them into the vicious cycle of inter-generational poverty, " he said.

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Of course, since poverty and education are so tightly interwoven it becomes a vicious cycle very quickly.

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