倾家荡产

The cost of transporting him would make him ruinously expensive.

买象的钱再加上运费，这简直是一个叫人倾家荡产的家伙！

The slave-driver lashed us desperately, for he saw ruin before him.

那个奴隶贩子觉得自己眼看就要倾家荡产，于是拼命拿鞭子抽我们。

That bad woman has bewitched the unfortunate man. And to think we once knew him such a true believer, such a noblehearted gentleman!""

他似乎快要倾家荡产了，&尚特罗夫人接着说道，&我丈夫手里有过他一张借据……他现在住在维里埃大街的那座公馆里。

That doesn't mean that consumers need be out of pocket.

这并不意味着消费者将倾家荡产。

The good news is that much of this research can be turned on its head - instead of bamboozling our brains into breaking the bank, we can kid our instincts into spending less.

然而好消息是，这项研究带给我们一些启示：不要被大脑骗得倾家荡产，我们可以骗过本能，借此节省开支。

It is "bankrupting families,""bankrupting businesses" and bankrupting our government at the state and federal level.

终而，这个体系将让&家庭倾家荡产&，&生意难以为继&，也让州政府和联邦政府都陷入财政危机。

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but he who consorts with harlots squanders his wealth.

喜爱智慧的，使父亲喜悦；寻花问柳的，必倾家荡产。

This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small; when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

尽管这个新的世界已经使千百万能够在其中竞争并取胜的美国人富裕起来了，但是，在大多数人更加拼命地工作而收入却在减少的时候，在还有人根本找不到工作的时候，在卫生保健费用使许多人倾家荡产、使大大小小的企业行将倒闭的时候，在恐惧犯罪而使奉公守法的公民丧失自由的时候，在千百万贫困儿童甚至难以想象我们正召唤他们去过的那种生活的时候，我们却还没有使改革成为我们的朋友。

In a perhaps apocryphal comment, Zhu Rongji, the acerbic former Chinese premier, supposedly groused that in the good old days roaring Shanghai circa the 1920s and 1930s investors who lost everything would jump off rooftops, but now they protest outside government offices.

据称--这有可能是杜撰--言辞尖锐的中国前总理朱镕基曾埋怨道，在当年繁华喧闹的上海，倾家荡产的投资者会跳楼自杀，而现在他们会在市政府外面游行抗议。

Wine and wenches empty men's purse.

酒和美色使人倾家荡产。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了