Impoverish
[ɪm'pɒv(ə)rɪʃ] or [ɪm'pɑvərɪʃ]
解释:
(v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
(v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
巴雷特校对
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to poverty, reduce to indigence.[2]. Exhaust the fertility of, make sterile.
艾莉森编辑
同义词及反义词:
[See ENRICH]
汉娜录入
解释:
v.t. to make poor: to exhaust the resources (as of a nation) or fertility (as of the soil).—n. Impov′erishment.
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例句:
- As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- I am an impoverished wretch--the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Lord Raymond was the sole remnant of a noble but impoverished family. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The frontier counties all along the continent having been frequently ravaged by the enemy, and greatly impoverished, are able to pay very little tax. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The scientist is emotionally impoverished. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Ten years of such stupid and confused fighting impoverished all Europe and left the Emperor in possession of Milan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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