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poor household

Medicine

vitamin deficiency disease; avitaminosis; hypovitaminosis

iron-deficiency anemia; iron-deficiency anaemia

hard life; life of austerity

Proverb

poor households have many children

Proverb

poverty is a stranger to industry; diligence is the mother of good fortune

Proverb

poor households have many children

hardships and privations

impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests

to be born poor; to be born into poverty

hardships and privations

Colloquial

curly hairstyle created by braiding (rather than perming)

Medicine

oligozoospermia; oligospermia

poverty caused by the high costs of (repetitive) moving

austerity budget; belt-tightening budget

impoverishment of fishermen because of a bumper catch; decline in fishermen's income caused by the sharply lower fish prices as a result of an overabundant catch

good scholars are seldom rich

gastric achlorhydria

pencil sharpened at both ends; sharpening a pencil at both ends

Medicine

achromia; albinism

shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs)

Archaic; As 貧乏揺るぎもしない

very slight movement

completely motionless; totally still