Earth eating boy
吃土───dirt-poor;少年───juvenile
My parents also grew up in dirt-poor poverty even after things ‘recovered’.───我父母也是在极度贫困的时候成长起来的，即使事情都已经“好起来了”。
The young man overcame his dirt-poor upbringing and now owns his village's only shop.───这位年轻人经历过儿时的艰难困苦，现在终于成了村子里唯一一个商店的主人。
Twenty-five years ago, living standards in the two dirt-poor Asian giants were similar, but now the average Chinese is nearly twice as well-off as his Indian neighbour.───25年前，亚洲两大贫穷大国的生活水平基本类似，但是现在，中国人的平均水平几乎是邻国印度的两倍。
IT MAY be a small, dirt-poor tropical country but Ronald Reagan once saw Nicaragua as a potentially "mortal threat" to the United States.───在一般人眼里，尼加拉瓜只是个又小，又极度贫困的热带国家。然而罗纳德·里根却一度视其为美国潜在的致命威胁。
Free-wheeling, dirt-poor entrepreneurs might have made America great.───一贫如洗、率性而为的创业者，也许成就了美国的伟大。
These people were dirt-poor by western standards, with no running water or electricity or any other modern convenience.───用西方社会的生活标准来衡量的话，这些人极为贫困，没有自来水，居住地不通电，没有任何的现代化生活设施。
In the early years, with four young mouths to feed, they were dirt-poor.
Born dirt-poor in a southern town to religious fanatics, he was raised on the Bible and the taunts of others.