ADJ A dirt-poor person or place is extremely poor. 非常贫穷的
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。
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