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词汇 down-and-out
释义 down-and-out
adjective
uk /ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/ us /ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/
C2
having no luck, no money, and no opportunities: 穷困潦倒的;时运不济的
a down-and-out loser穷困潦倒的失败者
Nobody loves you when you're down and out.你穷困潦倒的时候没人喜欢你。
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bag lady
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couch surf
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derelict
doss
dumping ground
homelessness
hostel
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mendicancy
mendicant
sofa-surf
sofa-surfing
soup kitchen
street
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Unemployment
down-and-out
noun[ C ]
UKuk /ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/ us /ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/
a person who has no money and no home: 落魄的人
I was never a down-and-out, but it did start to look that way.我以前一直都不是一个落魄的人,但现在看上去开始有这样的苗头了。
Down-and-outs warmed themselves at bonfires on the lorry park.落魄的人在货车场的篝火旁取暖。
He stopped to give a down-and-out some dosh.
She had spent some time with the down-and-outs in London.
As a young man he dressed as a down-and-out and tramped the streets of Paris and London.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Homelessness
bag lady
be of/have no fixed abode/addressidiom
couch surf
couchsurfing
derelict
doss
dumping ground
homelessness
hostel
housing benefit
mendicancy
mendicant
sofa-surf
sofa-surfing
soup kitchen
street
street child
vagrancy
waif
waifs and straysidiom

Examples of down-and-out


down-and-out
That is no indication of a derelict and down-and-out community.
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A walk-in advisory service is sometimes preferred by the drunken down-and-out vagrants who are but a small proportion of the total of our alcoholics.
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That man was as near down-and-out as makes no difference.
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I saw the down-and-out miner, who might have saved a little and whose income had to be taken into account.
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But let us not regard the railways, because of the financial problems which confront them, as an inefficient and down-and-out industry.
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If we have millions of pounds to spend, should we not think of spending them on the poor and the down-and-out in this country?
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They are going to take from the down-and-out.
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If we increased the amount of coins in the pocket of a down-and-out, his expenditure would increase to his new limit.
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He mentioned that when people are down-and-out their relatives look after them.
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A large number of voluntary organisations throughout the nation are giving shelter, care and affection to the down-and-out, the alcoholic, the drug addict and the mentally disturbed.
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If he is young and comparatively inexperienced, almost every poor down-and-out man that he meets in the street will be looked upon by him as a potential criminal.
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The film revolves around a down-and-out music promoter who inadvertently becomes a successful professional wrestling manager.
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The movie is basically a film noir, where a self-destructive, down-and-out investigator takes on a case that may be more than he can handle.
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At the same time, they agreed she had an evil side brought on by the stress of caring for her down-and-out tenants.
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It describes the life of a number of down-and-out men who belong to the artistic circles of the city.
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