汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 穷困潦倒
穷困潦倒 (窮困潦倒)
down and out / fall on evil days / on the beach / in a state of utter poverty / live a life of poverty / in the grip of poverty / crack up under the strain of poverty / be penniless and frustrated
穷困 Poverty, difficulty / 潦倒 Frustrated / Living in poverty, frustrated and depressed
() qióng kùn lǎo/liáo dào/dǎo
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他们两个人都死于穷困潦倒

Both of them died in abject poverty.

甚至当你穷困潦倒,你都能遇见女孩。

You can meet girls, even if your broke.

曾是名神童,非常出名,但现在穷困潦倒

He had once been famous, a child prodigy, but now he was down and out.

“黄粱梦”讲的是一个穷困潦倒的书生睡熟之后梦见了自己梦寐以求的午餐。

Golden Millet Dream is a story about a poor, unhappy scholar who fell asleep while waiting for his lunch.

在美国人的脑子里,租房者被视为是穷困潦倒、存心与美国梦作对的人。

In the American mind, renters are regarded as an unsavorylot, willful dissidents from the American dream.

流浪汉们则大多一字不识,面对自身的穷困潦倒,他们脑子里是同样的一片空白,无计可施。

Tramps, unlettered types as nearly all of them are, face their poverty with blank, resourceless minds.

一定是你那本性中邪恶的一面在作怪,使你去伤害一个已经穷困潦倒的人。

Surely it is your worse self that seeks to injure someone who is already down and out.

人们通常认为白人男性更富有,更有教养,更体贴,而亚洲男性则往往穷困潦倒,举止粗俗,还很自私。

White men have been generally seen as wealthier, more cultured and more considerate while Asian men have been seen as impoverished, uncouth and self-centered.

其幅员辽阔,但穷困潦倒的东南亚邻国也将收入数十亿,只要他们加紧对其大量原始矿石储备的开采力度。

Its big, poor South-East Asian neighbours would also be earning billions if they had been quicker to exploit their vast, untapped reserves of ores.

萨马圆脸,一头浓密的黑发笼在头巾里,她穷困潦倒,身无分文。他的丈夫身无长物,好吃懒做,丢了工作,而且没人愿意雇用他。

A round-faced woman with thick black hair tucked into a head scarf, Saima had barely a rupee, and her deadbeat husband was unemployed and not particularly employable.