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"esquilmar" in English

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"esquilmar" in English
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esquilmar{verb}
No se puede esquilmar primero la zona pesquera propia para seguir después con la del vecino.
It cannot be right for some people first to exhaust their own fishing grounds and then to try to exhaust those of their neighbours.
No esquilman recursos y apoyan el desarrollo local.
They do not exhaust resources and they support local development.
Hemos esquilmado las poblaciones de peces.
We have exhausted fish stocks.
to screw{v.t.} (exploit, cheat)
esquilmar{transitive verb}
Hemos esquilmado los recursos.
We have endlessly squandered resources.

CONTEXT EXAMPLES
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Me inclino a pensar, dicho claramente, que esto es una licencia para esquilmar caladeros.
I tend to believe that, to put it bluntly, this is a licence to plunder.
Este principio de esquilmar el contenido ha de terminar.
This principle of feeding off the burden has to end.
No se puede esquilmar primero la zona pesquera propia para seguir después con la del vecino.
It cannot be right for some people first to exhaust their own fishing grounds and then to try to exhaust those of their neighbours.
Es como si llegásemos a un lago y después de esquilmar todos sus peces, nos trasladásemos a otro hasta esquilmarlo también.
It is as if we had come to a lake and fished it empty and then moved on to another lake and fished that one empty as well.
Este problema medioambiental debe atajarse de raíz mediante la reducción de la capacidad de la flota y no procediendo a esquilmar otros lugares.
This environmental problem must be tackled at source, namely by reducing the fleet capacity, not by overfishing elsewhere now.
Estos programas en sí están destinados a garantizar que la agricultura tenga una posición más sólida en esas sociedades y que no consista simplemente en esquilmar la tierra.
Those programmes themselves are intended to ensure that agriculture has a more soundly based position in those societies and does not consist simply of raping the land.