贫困地区

Self built house Can represent shanty towns or favelas that form in urban areas to house low-income people, or earth-built homes of natural materials such as adobe, straw.

这主要是指当地居民以传统方式建造的房屋。他们往往就地取材--节约资源，设计上充分利用了当地的地理环境--节约能源。虽然在城市地区，往往是略贫困的人们住在那堙A但我们的著眼点是它对环境友善的一面。

Using the relative yardstick favoured in many European countries, 27% of Chileans would be poor, according to Juan Carlos Feres of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

联合国拉美和加勒比地区经济委员会的 Juan Carlos Feres 说，根据许多欧洲国家的标准，仍有27%的智利人属于贫困人口。

When one thinks of poor people who are being impacted by climate change, one thinks of Africa and so on, but I think South Asia, and particularly the watersheds that are fed from the Himalayas, are equally vulnerable.

当我们提到受气候变化影响的贫困人口的时候，我们想到的是非洲等地的人民。但是，我认为南亚地区，特别是喜马拉雅融水形成的水域也同样的脆弱。

Raleigh China accomplished its first domestic expedition in Gansu Province in 2009; venturers from 17 provinces planted 60,000 saplings for poor families and trekked into Tengeli Desert for self-exploring. Raleigh Poyang Lake expedition 2010 will provide unique opportunities for Raleighians to serve and achieve while 2 eco-primary schools and 8 migrant bird watching huts will be built.

2009年，雷励中国带领来自全国17个省市的青年在甘肃完成了第一期国内远征，为贫困家庭义务培育6万株大果沙棘，并进入腾格里沙漠完成自我探索之旅；2010年，新的一批雷励人将踏上征途，去到江西鄱阳湖地区建设两所生态希望小学以及八个候鸟保护者看护棚，为当地的教育和环保贡献自己的力量，并积极发展自身潜能。

Over the past two decades, global capitalism has expanded dramatically from its previously narrow western base to include five sixths of the planet with a "bottom billion" still trapped in crushing poverty.

在过去的20年中，从以前狭小的西方根据地到包含了全球的六分之五的地区，全球化资本主义已戏剧性的扩张开来，同时世界最底层的10亿穷人仍处在贫困的边缘。

Over the past two decades, global capitalism has expanded dramatically from its previously narrow western base to include five sixths of the planet with a "bottom billion" still trapped in crushing poverty.

在过去的20年中，全球化资本主义已'急剧'的扩张开来，从以前狭小的西方根据地到包含了全球的六分之五的地区，同时世界最底层的10亿穷人仍'被困于''负担沉重的'贫困'之中'。

Poverty, due to shrinking herd sizes, is driving thousands of pastoral families throughout east and west Africa to fence off the rangelands to practice rain-fed agriculture and, where water is available, dry-season gardening.

牧群规模缩小所引起的贫困使非洲东部和西部地区数以千计的游牧家庭不得不将牧场土地划分出来从事雨养农业，或者在有水源供给的地方从事旱季农艺。

The government is supporting continuing-education programs for rural practitioners and financing efforts to send more university-trained doctors to poor rural areas.

目前政府支持农村医护人员的继续进修计划，并提供资金，以便向贫困农村地区派遣更多接受过大学教育的医生。

It also gives them a chance to help ease poverty in Agogo through beekeeping and the sale of honey.

而且也给学生们提供一个通过养蜂并出售蜂蜜来帮助Agogo地区的人们摆脱贫困的机会。

Earlier surveys "worked well in the big cities," says Miller,"but they didn't work in the hinterlands" because of cultural differences on such topics as the origins of disease.

Miller说，他原来设计的调查&在大城市还适用，但是，在偏远、贫困的地区却不行，这是因为文化的差异，比如对诸如疾病的起起源等的看法的不同。&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。