我想了想。贫穷对大人来说很残忍,对小孩子更是如此:他们并不太懂贫穷的人仍可以勤劳工作、值得尊重,他们只会把贫穷和破旧的衣服、贫乏的食物、没火的炉子、粗鲁的举止和恶劣的行为联系在一起,贫穷对我来说就等于堕落
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I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.