This being the case, they’re caught up in a poverty trap and can’t get out of it.

在这种情况下，她们陷入了贫困的陷阱并无法自拔。

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The debilitating effect of hunger on human productivity and income leads to a hunger trap, Stamoulis says, with extreme poverty causing hunger which then perpetuates poverty.

Stamoul is说，饥饿给人类生产力和收入造成的破坏性影响导致出现饥饿陷阱，极端贫困引起饥饿，饥饿再使贫困无限期地延续下去。

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So Africa has a rare chance to break out of its poverty trap.

因此，非洲拥有了一个摆脱其深陷贫困处境的千载难逢的机会。

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Too many teenagers in England leave care without enough support, ending up in a "trap of poverty and joblessness", the children's minister has said.

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One consequence of Haiti's poverty trap is that 84% of Haitians with more than a secondary education lived abroad in 2000, according to a study cited by the World Bank.

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"For the individual, it's sort of a poverty trap, " he said.

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