"He’s too poor to pay attention" nghĩa là gì?

"He’s too poor to pay attention" = quá nghèo, chẳng cần chú ý làm gì -> nghĩa là nghèo nàn, bần cùng, dưới đáy xã hội.

Ví dụ

The main reason some people are poor is because they are too poor to pay attention to the business of making money on their own.

This is a subject near to my heart, I suppose, because we’re now 20 years from 1998—the year Hero and I both graduated from high school. 1998 was the year, after much trying on tape-trading forums, that I secured a copy of a VHS tape featuring some World of Sport wrestling matches from the UK. I’d already purchased, at great personal cost to a kid whose father was at the time “too poor to pay attention,” taped compilations of matches from Japan.

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