汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 衣不蔽体
衣不蔽体 (衣不蔽體)
lit. clothes not covering the body (idiom) / fig. poverty-stricken
蔽 cover / The clothes were ragged and couldn't even cover his body / Describe poor life
衣服破烂遮不住身体。形容极端贫困。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他们衣不蔽体,食不裹腹, 90以上的人都是文盲。

They never had enough food and clothes , and over 90 percent were illiterate.

艾曼纽跟在她后面。在客厅里,还有七八个衣不蔽体的水手。

Emmanuel followed her, and in the antechamber were visible the rough faces of seven or eight half - naked sailors.

但当我们乘火车从乡间穿过的时候,我们亲眼看见一些人衣不蔽体

But we entered by train and when we were travelling through the countryside we did see some people in rags.

昭和十年(1934年),台中闹区柳川桥下飘来一具衣不蔽体的无名女尸。

In 1934, an unknown naked female body was washed down to the willow river bridge in downtown taichung.

最终我得出结论,大多数对社交媒体的胡吹海夸都是胡说八道,而且人们,尤其是那些自称社交媒体精英的,大都衣不蔽体

I've concluded that most of the hype around social media is nonsense and that people, particularly the self-proclaimed social media elite are clothing-less.

孟买是一个亿万富豪摩天大楼阴影中的城市,你真的可以看到劳斯莱斯颠簸在破破烂烂的街道上,从衣不蔽体的小孩身边开过。

Mumbai today really is a place where you can see Rolls-Royces bumping along pot-holed streets past naked children, in the shadow of billionaires’ personal skyscrapers.

一个月过去了,大家都开始为第三位年轻人的安危担心,他却一步一蹭,衣不蔽体地回来了。他发枯唇燥,只剩下清炯的眼神。

A month later, everybody began to worry about the safety of the third young man. However, he finally showed up.

肯尼迪的一位幕僚后来回忆写道“孩子们有的衣不蔽体,有的衣衫不整,在房间里奔来撞去,埃塞尔不得不以最大的嗓门四处叫喊申饬。

One of his staff wrote later that "kids in various states of undress ran amok, Ethel scurried about screaming orders at the top of her lungs.