| 人 |
rén qióng zhì duǎn | poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition |
| 人 |
rén | person; people / CL:个,位 |
| 穷 |
qióng | poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly |
| 志 |
zhì | aspiration / ambition / the will |
| 志 |
zhì | sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote |
| 短 |
duǎn | short / brief / to lack / weak point / fault |