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

• It will be paid for in terms of the impoverishment of home life, of children who receive less care, love, and supervision.
  其结果是损害家庭生活，孩子们未能得到足够的照顾、爱护与教养。
• China experienced a period of enduring impoverishment and long-standing debility in its modern history and was for a time at the mercy of other countries.
  近代中国经历了一段积贫积弱、任人宰割的历史。
• It does not take analytical genius to see historical forces of this kind engaged in their relentless impoverishment over the past 10 years.
  无需具备擅长分析的天分，就能看清这类历史力量在过去十年无情地发挥着打击力。
• Second arousing the enthusiasm of poverty-striken peasant household extricating impoverishment;
  调动贫困农户脱贫的积极性；
• National isolation can only cause economic and cultural impoverishment.
  锁国只会导致经济和文化上的困厄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。