Explanation: Poverty: poverty, hardship; down and out: frustrated. Living in poverty, frustration depressed. Source: Tandoori just "climb" bitter hate poetry fan hard frost temples, down and the new stop of liquor cup. " Examples: Broken house county, there are a number of ~ and no way out of his study participants Yijun. (Yao Xueyin "Rereading" The second volume Chapter XXIII)
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词 目 穷困潦倒 发 音 qióng kùn liáo dǎo
英 语 crack up under the strain of poverty and sorrow
释 义 穷困：贫穷、困难；潦倒：衰颓、失意。生活贫困，失意颓丧。
出 处 唐·杜甫《登高》诗：“艰难苦恨繁霜鬓，潦倒新停浊酒杯。” 周而复《上海的早晨》一部：“朱延年回到家里的态度和在福佑药房时完全两样，垂头丧气地坐在卧房的单人沙发里，摆着一张马脸，没有一丝笑容，像是穷困潦倒得再也扶持不起来的样子。”
示 例 破了房县，又有一些～而没有出路的读书人参加了他的义军。（姚雪垠《李自成》第二卷第二十三章 ）
用 法 作谓语、定语；指生活失意
have a growing posterity, five generations living under the same roof, Eight Treasures precious food, be in clover, Kim Yu-stack heap, mollycoddle, enjoy wealth and honor, epicurean delicacies, dainties of all lands and seas, Shanyaoyesu, Water and land Juchen, both land and sea food mixed together, red lanterns and green wine — scene of debauchery, Kim Yu-cooking dishes, pass through Gold belt Jade, luxury and dissipation; live an extravagant life, Luxury and dissipation; live an extravagant life Rebo Zhang henshui classic, ambrosia, Crisp but not hard, be (out) on the tiles (=go on the tiles), immeasurably dissolute, dissipated and unshamed, nabobism, Wine to spend days, Zuishengmengsi, Fair skin covers the multitude of sins., living an extravagant life, live an extravagant life, sybaritism, s liver bile leopard