a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
poverty line的用法和樣例:
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用作名詞 (n.)
There are still too many people living below the poverty line. 生活在貧困線以下的人數仍然過多。
Afterward Vernon's employment was spotty and the family lived just above the poverty line. 事後弗農的就業和家庭生活只是零星的貧困線以上。
There are more people now living below the poverty line than before. 目前生活在貧窮線下的人口比以前有所增加。
And in l977, the average poverty line of the country was slightly more than $6,200 annual income for a non- farm family of four. 而到一九七七年,國家規定一個四口的非農業家庭的平均貧窮線為年收入略高於六千二百美元。