pauperism ['pɔ:pəˌɪzəm]

例句:

• He becomes a pauper , and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.
  工人变成赤贫者,贫困比人口和财富增长得还要快.
  
• Their women and children suffer, and their old age is branded with pauperism.
  他们的妻儿受苦, 他们的晚年注定要依靠救济过活.
  
• There can be no communism with pauperism, or socialism with pauperism.
  不能有穷的共产主义,同样也不能有穷的社会主义.
  
• Neither beneficiaries nor recipients held the condition of pauperism in high regard.
  来自WSJ