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

• National isolation can only cause economic and cultural impoverishment.
  锁国只会导致经济和文化上的困厄。
• Their sickness and death contribute to the impoverishment of entire families.
  他们的疾病和死亡造成了整个家庭的贫困。
• Reducing exclusion, extending universal benefits and protecting people from impoverishment are common elements of a growing number of national health policies.
  减少排斥、扩大普遍福利以及使人民免于贫困，现已成为越来越多的国家卫生政策的共同要素。
• Just as protectionism over trade leads to impoverishment, so parochialism over immigration is likely to lead to a lower standard of living.
  正如贸易保护主义会导致贫穷落后，在移民政策上目光短浅也可能导致生活水准下降。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Expressive signs of what made them poor, were not wanting; The Impoverishment and the Causes of the Female-headed Households in America
  标志着他们贫困的根源的东西并不难见到。美国以女性为户主的家庭的贫困及其根源探究