1.赤贫的;不名一文的very poor; without money
impoverished peasants贫困的农民
the impoverished areas of the city这个城市的贫民区
2.贫乏的;贫瘠的;枯竭的poor in quality, because sth is missing
I mean, there may be 100 explanations for why Haiti is the impoverished nation it is, but there is no excuse to see that sort of squalor.
我是说,即使有100条理由解释为什么海地是那样贫穷,它也没有理由那样的破败不堪。
Given that most MDR-TB occurs in impoverished countries, this expensive treatment is often not an option.
然而大部份多重抗药性结核病发生在贫穷国家,这个昂贵的疗法常常不纳入考虑。
China has worked out a plan to turn its vast impoverished western region into a promising land.
中国目前已出台计划,拟将贫瘠的大西部改造成为富饶的土地。
EVEN at 70, Jiyem, an Indonesian grandmother, gets up in the small hours to cook and collect firewood for her impoverished household.
印度尼西亚的老妇人Jiyem尽管已年逾古稀,仍然凌晨起来为生活贫苦的一家人做饭、收拾柴火。
Were he to see off today's uprising, he would be left ruling over an isolated, impoverished and angry country.
如果他能预见如今的起义,他会安于统治一个闭塞、贫困、民怨沸腾的国家。
He said he hopes any sanctions, however, would target the country's leaders and not strike at its impoverished people.
他说,他希望任何制裁,然而,将目标的国家的领导人,而不是罢工在它的贫困人口。
They were less than half as likely to come from an impoverished family as an average adult man from the general population.
他们出身于贫困家庭的几率比一般男性少一半。
He said that military means alone would not be enough and that there has to be the promise of a better life for impoverished Afghans.
仅仅采取军事手段是远远不够的,同时也是对贫苦的阿富汗人提供一种美好生活的承诺。
On the face of it, it is a humanitarian response to the floods that have devastated the north-west part of the impoverished North.
从表面上看,这只不过是一项人道主义举措,旨在援助贫穷的北朝鲜被洪水毁坏的西北地区。
But despite the fact that they were "pretty impoverished" , he says it was an "idyllic" period of time.
“尽管生活贫困,”他说:“那时期的生活充满了田园气息。”
In the Mixteca, one of the most impoverished regions in Mexico, migration to the United States has arrived like a storm.
墨西哥最贫穷的地区之一,移民到美国的风潮像暴风雨一样迅速的到来。
But he also pointed out that India, one of the world's biggest economies in 1700, was impoverished by the time the British left.
但辛格同时还指出,大英帝国驻留的这段时期,也使得原本在18世纪还是世界最大经济体之一的印度变得贫穷了。
The foundation also announced plans today to spend $73m over the next five years to help small farmers in impoverished countries.
基金会还宣布了一个计划说,今后五年,他们将向贫穷国家投放七千三百万美元来帮助小农户。
Most of the children of this impoverished area suffer from malnutrition.
这个赤贫区域的大多数的孩子都有营养不良的问题。
Jack London, American novelist, author of Call of the Wild, was born into a family of an impoverished farmer in San Francisco.
美国小说家、小说《荒野的呼唤》的作者杰克·伦敦生于旧金山一个破产农民家庭。
I sometimes think myself unlucky to have been born in an aging and impoverished city, buried under the ashes of a ruined empire.
我有时认为自己不幸出生在一个衰老而贫困的城市,湮没在帝国遗迹的余烬中。
A person is born whether the family impoverished and is wealthy is unable to choose, A person's destiny is not inborn can be doomed.
一个人出生的家庭是否贫困与富裕是无法选择的,一个人的命运也不是天生就能注定的。
The US Geological Survey (USGS) says that it was the most violent earthquake to strike the impoverished country in a century.
据美国地质勘探局称,这是一个世纪以来发生在贫困国家中最激烈的一场地震。
These children are attending classes in a little yellow building in Iztapalapa, one of the most impoverished areas of Mexico City.
这些小孩在墨西哥其中一个最穷困的地区,伊斯塔帕拉帕里的一栋黄色的建筑物中上课。
Soldiers ate a lot of it in World War II. After the war, Americans shipped tons of it to impoverished Europeans as relief supplies.
在二次大战期间士兵们吃了大量的Spam,二战之后,美国人成吨成吨地把它们运往欧洲作为穷人的救济品。
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