down-and-out是什么意思

双语用例

• That is no indication of a derelict and down-and-out community.

• 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.

• That man was as near down-and-out as makes no difference.

• I saw the down-and-out miner, who might have saved a little and whose income had to be taken into account.

• But let us not regard the railways, because of the financial problems which confront them, as an inefficient and down-and-out industry.

• 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?

• They are going to take from the down-and-out.

• If we increased the amount of coins in the pocket of a down-and-out, his expenditure would increase to his new limit.