汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 傾家蕩產
傾家蕩產 (倾家荡产)
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
倾 Pour out / 荡 Clean up / All the possessions were wiped out
全部家产都没有了人不学好,滥吃滥用,纵有家财万贯,也会倾家荡产。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

结果就是倾家荡产也无法治疗。

Result is that the treatment can not go bankrupt.

他们一旦安家落户,能吃得你倾家荡产

Once they establish residency, they can eat you out of house and home.

史密斯先生因赌赛马而倾家荡产

Mr Smith lost his shirt betting on the horses.

你的行为可能会使你身败名裂,说不定还要倾家荡产

Your behavior may cause you to lose both fortune and honour, maybe even to be reduced to poverty and ruin.

你愿意倾家荡产去填补事故赔偿的无敌漩涡吗?

Would you be willing to throw your entire family's savings into the endless whirlpool of accident compensation?

做这样一笔生意,你可能一夜暴富,也可能倾家荡产

In a business like this you can make a lot of money, but you can also lose your shirt.

一些投资者确信能够看到他们倾家荡产之后褴褛的衣衫在随风摇曳了。

Some investors are sure to see their shirts blown away in the wind.

当然我并不是想倾家荡产,一两杯咖啡不会让我破产,却可以让别人感到快乐。

Obviously I'm not going to break the bank, but a cup of coffee or two isn't going to break me and it just might make their day.

吉卜赛人发了一通吓人的牢骚,并宣称如果他再做几笔这样的交易,他就倾家荡产了。

The gipsy grumbled frightfully, and declared if he did a few more deals of that sort he'd be ruined.

这样的价格,对于门外那些往往是举倾家荡产之力、拖家带口、三步一叩首用身体丈量土地步行来到大昭寺朝圣的信徒们来说,怎么可能负担得起?

How could those believers outside the door, who have spent all their savings to travel with using their bodies to measure the thousand miles of distance, to afford this price?