impoverish

常见例句

Their overconfidence leads them to impoverish not just themselves but also their fishing grounds.
他们的过分自信不仅导致他们自己贫困，而且导致他们渔场也贫困。
Many gamblers impoverish themselves here, and it is no coincidence that numerous pawn brokers have set up shop in the streets around the Hotel Lisboa.
很多赌徒在这里变得一文不名，而众多的典当经纪人在里斯本旅馆附近的大街上建立起自己的商店。
He knows just as well that those who turn away from all personal life through a great love enrich themselves perhaps but certainly impoverish those their love has chosen.
他还知道，那些通过伟大的爱情脱离所有私生活的人们自身是得到了丰富，但是这样却使得他们所爱的人日渐凋零。

You eat their cattle and their goats and you impoverish them.
That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.
这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。
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