工作组又分头进行访贫问苦，可是接连几天没人敢同他们说话。

For several days, the cadres went individually among the people asking them about local conditions and their own lives, but no one would talk.

他访贫问苦、接受请愿，他至少去亲自调查乡村地区选民的处境。

He visits, he gets petitions, he at least surveys with his own eyes what the rural voter is facing.

在他访问中国的第一站，世界银行行长将到甘肃省农村访贫问苦，这些贫困农户的收入水平属于中国人口中收入最低的百分之一。

On the first leg of his visit to China, the World Bank president is visiting poor people in rural villages in Gansu province - whose incomes are in the bottom one percent in China.