They were profoundly troubled by the widespread degradation and misery they observed.

他们目睹了普遍的潦倒和悲惨，感到深深的忧虑。

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He appeared scruffy, poorly dressed, and down and out.

他看上去邋里邋遢、穿着破旧、穷困潦倒。

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She was left without a penny.

她已到了贫困潦倒的地步.

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He was out of work and living in squalor.

他失业了，生活潦倒。

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Old Sam is poor now, but he has seen better days.

老山姆现在很潦倒, 可他以前曾风光过.

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Mr Foley was down and out after he lost many friends.

佛利先生失去许多朋友之后,穷困潦倒.

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The writer's family descended in the end to extreme poverty.

那位作家一家人后来穷困潦倒了.

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They had turned away from the centre of the dreary tobacco town.

他们刚离开那潦倒的烟草镇市中心.

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The harried magazinist appeared as the tragic young aristocrat.

给杂志写稿的潦倒文人,成了悲剧性的年轻贵族.

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That's what has impoverished him, eh?

这是不是弄得他穷愁潦倒的原因?

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He himself was sick and sore.

他自己病愁潦倒.

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He had been bogged down by a series of missed opportunities and plain bad luck.

他始终没走过运.几次错失良机,落得潦倒不堪.

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In Green's invective there is the starveling author's jealousy of the prosperous actor.

格林的痛骂声里包含潦倒作家对发迹演员的嫉妒.

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The fates mess around with the people who have the most to lose.

灾难总是同穷困潦倒的人形影不离.

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The history of painting was full of artists who had earned nothing at all.

绘画史上到头来不名分文穷愁潦倒的艺术家俯拾皆是.

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