プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
まずしい【貧しい】
&fRoman1;poor; needy(▼暮らしに困窮した)
貧しい人々
the poor
貧しい暮らしをする
be badly off/live in poverty
彼は貧しい農家に生まれた
He was born into a poor farmer's family.
彼らは貧しい食卓に向かった
They sat down to their humble meal.
&fRoman2;〔乏しい〕poor;〔必要量に足りない〕scanty;〔全く不十分な〕 《米》 meager,《英》 meagre
知識が貧しい
have only a poor [scanty] knowledge ((of))
想像力の貧しい人だ
He is lacking [wanting] in imagination./He has very little imagination.