impoverishment

英 [ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃmənt]

美 [ɪmˈpɑːvərɪʃmənt]

n.  穷困化状况(或过程)

BNC.23039 / COCA.22454

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 穷困化状况(或过程)
  Impoverishmentis the state or process of being impoverished.
  1. ...a meeting of experts on how the impoverishment of Africa can be reversed...
     研讨如何逆转非洲穷困化状况的专家会议
  2. National isolation can only cause economic and cultural impoverishment.
     锁国只会导致经济和文化上的困厄。

英英释义

noun

• the act of making someone poor
  Synonym:pauperizationpauperisation
• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  Synonym:povertypoorness

双语例句

• During World War II, the islands and people had been exploited by the Japanese Military to the point of impoverishment.
  二战期间，各岛和人民都被日本军事所剥削而变为贫困。
• Once more, a natural disaster serves as an occasion to showcase the impoverishment, to exaggerate the scenes of violence that are common to any catastrophe of this type.
  又一次，一场自然灾害被用作一次机会来展示当地的贫苦，夸大同类大灾难下普遍会有的暴力场面。
• If countries face year after weary year of debt deflation and depression, the euro risks becoming a detested symbol of impoverishment.
  如果各国年复一年地陷于债务通缩和经济萧条，欧元有可能变成令人唾弃的贫困象征。
• National isolation can only cause economic and cultural impoverishment.
  锁国只会导致经济和文化上的困厄。
• Once this happens the site is abandoned and the soil is exposed to sun and rain, resulting in erosion and further impoverishment of the soil. The bits of rock lie on the ground, or under it, and they form soil of a kind;
  如果土地就撂荒了，土壤直接暴露中日晒雨淋中，导致水土流失和土壤进一步贫瘠.地面上或地面下有很多碎石，它们形成了一种土壤，但这种土壤很贫瘠。
• Neither of the world's fastest-growing large economies wants Maoist-led instability, nor impoverishment, on its borders.
  这两个全球增长最快的大型经济体，均不希望在本国边境上出现由毛派引发的不稳定和贫穷。
• The credit crunch is causing severe pain and is generating unemployment and impoverishment at an alarming pace.
  信贷危机正引起严重的后果，导致民众以惊人的速度陷入失业和穷困。
• Recovery of Copper from Water Quenched Slag of Copper Smelting by Impoverishment at High Temperature and Flotation
  高温贫化-浮选法从炼铜水淬渣中回收铜漳村矿选煤厂浮游选煤加药自动化研究
• In short, if there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
  简言之，如果技术取得了进步而社会却依然如故，那就几乎必然会增加人的不幸和贫困。
• The country estates and their gardens had been ruined through the impoverishment of their owners and the decay of the towns.
  但田庄田产及其园艺业却随着主人的贫穷和城市的衰落而衰败了。