living in extreme poverty

When the UN in 2000 set a millennial development goal of halving the percentage of humans living in extreme poverty by 2015, most people thought it was just pompous verbiage.

2000年，联合国制定了一个千年发展目标，计划到2015年将生活在极度贫困之中的人口比例减少一半。当时多数人认为，这只是一种夸大其词的空话。

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Sampson pointed out in an email that many of the adults in the program had lived in extreme poverty for decades and that the children, who were on average 11 years old when they entered the program, had spent their early years living in adversity.

桑普森在写给时报的电子邮件中指出，参与MTO项目的许多成年人本已在极端贫困中浸淫了几十年，而他们的子女在项目开始的时候平均年龄为11岁，也已经历了早年的逆境。

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Despite the global economic downturn, the world bank and UN reported this year that the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped in every region of the world for the first time since record keeping began.

尽管全球经济处于下行之中，世界银行（world bank）和联合国（un）今年的报告仍显示，世界各地区的极端贫困人口都出现了记录开始编制以来的首次减少。

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For example, in Ethiopia 90 percent of people are 'MPI poor' compared to the 39 percent who are classified as living in 'extreme poverty'.

例如，在埃塞俄比亚，按照MPI指数，90%的人是贫困的，远远超过被界定为“极端贫困的”39%的人口。

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and 400 million children around the world are living in extreme poverty.

全球有4亿人正在忍受极端贫困生活的折磨。

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Founder of BRAC, Fazle Hasan Abed, said he is particularly honored to receive the Hilton Humanitarian Prize on the International Day to Eradicate Poverty, a day to remember the billions of people living in extreme poverty.

孟加拉农村发展委员会的创建人阿贝德表示，他觉得特别荣幸能在国际消除贫困日这一天获得希尔顿人道主义奖。国际消除贫困日是要提醒我们记得几十亿生活在极度贫困中的人。

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People living in extreme poverty and suffering.

老百姓生活极度贫困，痛苦不堪。

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Let us not forget that in 2015, 1bn people will still be living in extreme poverty.

我们要牢记，2015年时，全球仍会有10亿人口生活在极端贫困之中。

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In2000 the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by2015.One of these is halving the number of people living in extreme poverty.

2000年，联合国通过了在2015年之前实现的千禧年发展目标，其中之一是把生活在极端贫困中的人口减少一半。

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