新聞美語 每日一字 Impoverished

11月4日AP News(美聯社)的一則新聞標題：
EXPLAINER: How impoverished N. Korea finances testing spree.
評析：貧窮的朝鮮如何資助測試熱潮。

"Impoverished"這個形容詞的中譯就是"貧困"。
"Impoverished"指的是非常非常的貧窮：being really, really poor, either from having no money or being in bad health.

"Impoverished"的例句：
A country may become "impoverished" after a devastating war.
一個國家可能在一場毀滅性的戰爭之後變得一貧如洗。
The dictator enriched himself but "impoverished" his people.
獨裁者使自己變得富有，卻使他的人民變得貧窮。

"Impoverished"的同義字有：poor、needy、indigent、destitute、penniless、poverty-stricken、necessitous、straitened…