Third World

英 [θɜːd wɜːld]

美 [θɜːrd wɜːrld]

n.  第三世界

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牛津词典

noun

• 第三世界
  a way of referring to the poor or developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, which is sometimes considered offensive
  1. the causes of poverty and injustice in the Third World
     第三世界贫穷和不公正的原因
  2. Third-World debt
     第三世界债务

柯林斯词典

• N-PROPER 第三世界;第三世界国家
  The countries of Africa, Asia, and South America are sometimes referred to all together asthe Third World, especially those parts that are poor, do not have much power, and are not considered to be highly developed.
  1. ...development in the Third World.
     第三世界的发展
  2. ...Third World debt.
     第三世界国家的债务

双语例句

• The West has artificially depressed the market for third world commodities.
  西方国家已人为地抑制了对第三世界商品的需求量。
• What will be the real impact of the slowdown on third world countries?
  经济放缓对第三世界国家将有什么真正的影响？
• This course explores how globalization impacts everyday life in the First and Third World;
  此课程探讨全球化如何影响第一和第三世界的日常生活；
• The Third World member countries in the United Nations have increased.
  在联合国中，第三世界的成员增加了。
• The salient feature of the third world was that it wanted economic and political clout.
  第三世界的突出特点便是希望拥有政治和经济影响力。
• China believes that there are rights and wrongs involved in the disputes between third world countries.
  中国认为第三世界国家的分歧是有是有非，有曲有直的。
• No I don't, mass third world immigration shows the contempt our government has for the British public.
  不，我不相信它。大量第三世界的移民到来，表明了我们政府对英国公众的蔑视。
• Pollution, violence, and poverty characterize many Third World cities.
  污染、暴力和贫穷成了许多第三世界城市的特征。
• 'Third World' is an abstraction, a form of shorthand
  “第三世界”是个抽象概念，是一种简称。
• We understand the circumstances in many countries, particularly in third world countries.
  我们对许多国家特别是第三世界国家的境遇也是理解的。