网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 impoverish
释义
impoverish
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ɪmˈpɒv.ər.ɪʃ/us
/ɪmˈpɑː.vɚ.ɪʃ/
to make someone verypoor:
使某人穷困
The newlawislikelytofurtherimpoverishsingleparents.这条新法律有可能使单亲家长进一步穷困。
He was made topayaruinousfinethat impoverished hisfamily.他被迫支付一笔难以承受的罚款，这导致了家庭的穷困。
to make somethingweakerorworseinquality:
Excessivefarminghad impoverished thesoil.
Ourculturalheritagewould be impoverished by theabsenceof Mozart.
See
impoverished
More examples
  • She said theIndiandamprojectwould impoverish millions of the world'spoorestpeople.
  • Somepeoplearguethatmultinationalcompaniesexploitpoorworkersabroadand impoverishworkersathomebymovingcapitaloverseas.
  • Theoboetendsto impoverish thetoneof theviolins.
  • Thiscoarsenessofimageryisvisuallyimpoverishingourtowns.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deteriorating and making worse
  • add
  • admin
  • aggravate
  • backslide
  • be (all) downhillidiom
  • debase
  • deteriorate
  • deterioration
  • devaluation
  • devalue
  • disintegrate
  • dog
  • one step forward, two steps backidiom
  • regress
  • regression
  • regressive
  • relapse
  • retrograde
  • worse
  • worsen
See more results »
(Definition ofimpoverishfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
impoverish
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ɪmˈpɒv.ər.ɪʃ/us
/ɪmˈpɑː.vɚ.ɪʃ/
to make someone verypoor
使某人穷困
The newlawislikelytofurtherimpoverishsingleparents.这条新法律有可能使单亲家长进一步穷困。
He was made topayaruinousfinethat impoverished hisfamily.他被迫支付一笔难以承受的罚款，这导致了家庭的穷困。
See
impoverished
More examples
  • She said theIndiandamprojectwould impoverish millions of the world'spoorestpeople.
  • Somepeoplearguethatmultinationalcompaniesexploitpoorworkersabroadand impoverishworkersathomebymovingcapitaloverseas.
  • Theoboetendsto impoverish thetoneof theviolins.
  • Thiscoarsenessofimageryisvisuallyimpoverishingourtowns.

Examplesofimpoverish

impoverish
Then, when the elderly parents became widowed, infirm, or impoverished, they moved into the household of one of their children.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Relatively little is directed vertically from the comfortable citizenry to impoverished and vulnerable groups on the margin.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Virtual worlds have a tendency not only to be impoverished but to be uniform, because this is the easiest thing to do.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is foreign factory workers who are now exploited and impoverished, for the most part.
From theCambridge English Corpus
An object is impoverished insofar as it is not plentiful.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This dichotomy, however, is too impoverished for a full understanding of the ways processes (and indeed outcomes) may be valued.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But the metropolitanists never mastered the post-depression forces that impoverished the urban core and promoted urban sprawl.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This result is attributed to a normative language system that dichromatic observers developed by learning subtle visual cues to compensate for their impoverished color system.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many landscapes have been 'dehistoricized', thus impoverishing the living memory of the landscape, anchored in certain places during the long interaction of man and environment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The core of the overpopulation thesis is that an unequal, impartible inheritance system could have prevented the population from growing, becoming impoverished and emigrating.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Other elderly had no property listed because they were truly impoverished, and this group rarely resided with their children.
From theCambridge English Corpus
His premise, that the loss of a language impoverishes our collective knowledge, is not in fact new.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Without adequate exploratory movements, the global array is impoverished and insufficient for guiding activity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To interpret is toimpoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/impoverish##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2025/3/20 3:20:57