impoverish

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Their overconfidence leads them to impoverish not just themselves but also their fishing grounds.
他們的過分自信不僅導(dǎo)致他們自己貧困，而且導(dǎo)致他們漁場(chǎng)也貧困。
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.
很多賭徒在這里變得一文不名，而眾多的典當(dāng)經(jīng)紀(jì)人在里斯本旅館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.
他還知道，那些通過偉大的愛情脫離所有私生活的人們自身是得到了豐富，但是這樣卻使得他們所愛的人日漸凋零。

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.
這種對(duì)靈魂?duì)顟B(tài)的關(guān)心,如同他告訴陪審團(tuán),已經(jīng)導(dǎo)致他不只精疲力盡,而且還使他從公共事務(wù),即城邦所關(guān)心的事務(wù),轉(zhuǎn)向探尋個(gè)人的美德。
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Its poisonous prescriptions unnecessarily impoverish countries, which makes it harder for us to sell to them.
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In other words, if they don't impoverish themselves, let the tax code do it to them.
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