| 词汇 | impoverishment |
| 释义 | impoverishment noun formaluk /ɪmˈpɒv.ər.ɪʃ.mənt/ us /ɪmˈpɑː.vɚ.ɪʃ.mənt/ [ U ] the condition of being or becoming very poor, or the act of making someone very poor: 贫穷;贫困化 The drought reduced many farmers to impoverishment.旱灾害得许多农民变成穷人。 Progress has meant continued impoverishment and a growing contrast between the wealth of the few and the poverty of the many.进步意味着持续的贫困化，造成了愈演愈烈的反差，一边是少数人的富裕，另一边是多数人的贫穷。 [ U or S ] the act or result of making something weaker or worse in quality: The overuse of chemical fertilizers has caused impoverishment of the soil. cultural/economic/spiritual impoverishment All too often these attempts have resulted in an impoverishment of the subject. There was widespread impoverishment of tenants and small farmers. Solidly middle-class Americans still face impoverishment following a serious illness. The intellectual impoverishment of politics in this country is shameful. They could only lament the impoverishment of their resources. Deteriorating and making worse add admin aggravate backslide be downhillidiom debase deteriorate deterioration devaluation devalue disintegrate dog regress regression regressive regressively retrograde wear thinidiom worse worsen Seeimpoverished Examples of impoverishmentimpoverishment The drive to establish theatre work as a profession was a direct response to mass impoverishment among artists. The effects of impoverishment, child care burden, instability, and geographic isolation on child maltreatment were analyzed separately for the two types of neighborhoods. This reflects the relatively greater impoverishment of ' older ' households where there is a greater depletion of savings and a lower likelihood of adequate occupational pensions. The improvement in working people's incomes was matched by a gradual decline in the degree of impoverishment amongst the retired population. In particular, there was no intergenerational accumulation of wealth or impoverishment. This increases the potential for soil impoverishment through export of nutrients as crop yield. It predicted the absolute impoverishment of the working class. One of these has to do with the differing distribution of impoverishment scores in the two types of neighborhoods. Travellers' tales give testament to the impoverishment of the city. The women agitation is a product of increasing marginality, neglect and impoverishment in the oil economy. And, thirdly, for the household the chances of impoverishment related to its history. There are, of course, alternative approaches to explaining blind children's lack of social engagement and 0 or impoverishment in symbolic play. Table 6 provides a summary of the conclusions of this analysis and suggests an interpretation of the response of single elders to increasing impoverishment. Short-term financial impoverishment may also have consequences for public expenditure in the longer term. The persistence of the problem, however, suggests that this measure had minimal impact, and the government did little else to address thespian impoverishment. See all examples of impoverishment 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. |
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