The young man overcame his dirt-poor upbringing and now owns his village's only shop.
这位年轻人经历过儿时的艰难困苦，现在终于成了村子里唯一一个商店的主人。
Twenty-five years ago, living standards in the two dirt-poor Asian giants were similar, but now the average Chinese is nearly twice as well-off as his Indian neighbour.
25年前，亚洲两大贫穷大国的生活水平基本类似，但是现在，中国人的平均水平几乎是邻国印度的两倍。
Oil wealth yanked a dirt-poor desert country into modernity but distorted relationships such as that between the citizen and the state, and between effort and reward in the workplace.
石油让沙特阿拉伯摆脱了极度贫困状态，将它带进现代世界，不过也扭曲了国民与国家的关系以及工作的劳酬关系。
They are known as "ants" for their willingness to work, their dirt-poor living conditions and the seeming futility of their efforts.
他们被称作“蚁族”，因为他们乐于勤奋工作，但生活条件却很差，而且努力往往收效甚微。
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
我们来说说丹德瓦达。这是一个森林密布、人烟稀少的偏远穷困地区，位于查蒂斯加尔邦南部。
In Dirt, Courteney Cox played a role completely different from her Friends character Monica, but the show was canceled over poor ratings.
在《流言》中，柯特妮·考克斯扮演的角色和她在《老友记》中扮演的莫妮卡完全不同。但这部电视剧因收视率低而被取消了。
Their ancestors had been dirt poor and never saw royalty, let alone hung around with them?
他们的祖先穷得要命，从来没有见过王族成员，更不用说和他们在一起了。
"Their ancestors had been dirt poor and never saw royalty, let alone hung around with them" (Garrison Keillor).
“他们的祖先穷得要命，从来没有见过王族成员，更不用说和他们在一起了”(加里森·谢勒)。
She spoke about the dangers of working too hard, of eating poor food, of houses without light, of dirt and other causes of disease.
她说，工作太辛苦，食物太简陋，屋里没有灯，不洁净等等都是危险的，都会导致疾病。
As she used to spend money like dirt she found it hard to become used to the poor life at the moment.
例：⑴惯了挥金如土的生活，她难以适应眼前这清贫的日子。
He magnanimously excuses the Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.
他很大度地原谅了《经济学家》在石油价格预测方面的失误，安慰说：我们在1999年认为世界石油价格将会一直非常便宜，但这是当时人们普遍的看法。
He magnanimously excuses the Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.
他很大度地原谅了《经济学家》在石油价格预测方面的失误，安慰说：我们在1999年认为世界石油价格将会一直非常便宜，但这是当时人们普遍的看法。
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