| 词汇 | down-at-heel |
| 释义 | down-at-heel adjective uk /ˌdaʊn.ətˈhɪəl/ us /ˌdaʊn.ətˈhɪəl/(US alsodown-at-the-heel, down-at-the-heels) wearing old clothes, or in a bad condition, because of not having much money: 衣衫破旧的;潦倒的;破落的，破败的 She had a decidedly down-at-heel appearance.她外表看起来实在很寒酸。 He worked in a down-at-heel café.他在一家破破烂烂的咖啡店工作。 In bad condition battered battle-scarred be on the skidsidiom beat someone up blasted hors de combat impaired in decay in good, bad, etc. repairidiom in piecesidiom run someone/something down sad scarred scuffed shabbily the worse for wearidiom well worn worm-eaten worn out worse Examples of down-at-heeldown-at-heel I think it is a flight of fancy to suggest that there are many millionaires owning these down-at-heel houses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is quite absurd to look upon him in a nineteenth century manner as a poor, down-at-heel individual. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any kind of building can be either luxury or it can be down-at-heel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never seen a more miserable, shuffling, down-at-heel, out-at-elbow and, most of all, sad and cheerless population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A shoddy, down-at-heel building will certainly not attract young recruits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And he went on to say that if we do not make this dash for freedom we should remain a down-at-heel, offshore island. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are, in effect, much more like north-east towns, with high unemployment, low wages, closing factories and coal mines and a crumbling down-at-heel infrastructure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a programme would put those building workers back to work improving houses, modernising the inner cities and improving the down-at-heel public infrastructure which afflicts so many communities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not appear down-at-heel. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Staying at down-at-heel boarding houses (three-quarters empty) he smells the bacon and beer while being treated by proprietors with a mixture of shyness and suspicion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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