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impoverishes
现在进行时
impoverishing
过去式
impoverished
过去完成时
impoverished
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使贫困, 摧毁
to take away a person or a country's riches to the point of poverty
- The economic crisis began to impoverish many families in the region.
经济危机开始使该地区的许多家庭陷入贫困。
- Poor policies can impoverish a country by draining its resources.
糟糕的政策会耗尽资源，从而使一个国家贫困化。
- Corruption in the government can impoverish a country’s citizens.
政府中的腐败可能使一个国家的公民贫困化。
- The prolonged war was impoverishing the country.
长期的战争正在使国家贫困化。
- By the time the reforms were introduced, the region had already been impoverished.
改革推出时，该地区已经贫困化了。
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