潦倒的

In 19th century Britain, one of the biggest fears was of dying poor, unmourned, unremembered, and possibly ending up on an anatomist's dissection table.

在19世纪的英国，最大的一个恐惧是临终时穷困潦倒，无人哀悼，无人记住，还有可能最终躺在解剖学家的肢解台上。

But it seems fairly impossible to expect a poet who was still unknown to the public to start his political career like Winston Churchill, especially when his literature style failed to blandish the emperor, and soon Sima Xiangru was expelled from the court to his hometown Si Chuan.

然而似乎文人的政治生涯刚开始都很难顺利，尤其是自己的文风不讨皇帝喜欢时。于是司马相如被贬到老家四川，没有正当谋生职业的他很快便生活潦倒不堪。

Just as every English school child knows Rowena, Rebecca, Ivanhoe, and Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert, so every French reader knows the poor but beautiful gypsy Esmeralda with her little goat; the alchemist-priest Claude Frollo, who desires her; and Quasimodo, the "hunchback of Notre Dame," who loves her and tries to save her.

正如每个英国小学生了解罗维娜，丽贝卡，艾凡赫和布莱恩爵士一样，每个法国读者都知道穷困潦倒却貌美如花的吉普赛女郎艾斯梅拉达和她的小羊，渴望得到她的炼金牧师克劳德·弗罗洛，以及喜欢她并尽力营救她的巴黎圣母院驼背，加西莫多。

People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-striken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order.

如果人们穷困潦倒，或者被剥削了基本的教育，抑或是居住在一个没有法律和秩序的社会中，那么人们就不能行使个人自由，也不能独立自主。

He was a poor old man, down and out, with many wrinkles on his weather-beaten face.

他是一个穷困的老人，落魄和潦倒，饱经风霜的脸上布满了皱纹。

The life of luxury in his boyhood acquainted him with the ways of noble families and the ruling classes, while poverty in his old age enabled him to observe life more clearly and penetratingly.

晚年的贫困潦倒，使他能够更清醒地、深刻地观察生活，看清剥削阶级的腐朽和罪恶。

And down this corridor, swinging his distress like a dingy lantern, Van Norden staggers, staggers in and out as here and there a door opens and a hand yanks him, or a hoof pushes him out.

范诺登沿着走廊摇摇晃晃走过来，一副潦倒失意的样子，活像一只黯淡的灯笼。他踉踉跄跄、跌跌撞撞地不时闯进一个门里去，门开处或有一只手把他一把拽进屋去，或有一只蹄子把他蹬出来。

When the publishers and the bourgeois - the very ones who shunned him - are finally at his feet, Martin has already begrudged them and become jaded by unrequited toil and love.

但他的尝试一次又一次地失败，生活上也潦倒到了山穷水尽的地步；尽管时常饿得发昏，连外衣也典当了，他仍不顾一切地读书和写作。

One story tells how St. Nicholas gave money for the three daughters of an impoverished nobleman to buy their dowries.

其中有一个故事说的是圣·尼克拉斯怎样把钱给一家穷困潦倒贵族的3个姑娘去买嫁妆。

Afterward he came around into Palestine, then wandered on into Europe, and at last when his money was all spent and he was in rags, wretchedness, and poverty, he stood on the shore of that bay at Barcelona, in Spain, when a great tidal wave came rolling in between the pillars of Hercules, and the poor, afflicted, suffering, dying man could not resist the awful temptation to cast himself into that incoming tide, and he sank beneath its foaming crest, never to rise in this life again.

后来他进入巴勒斯坦，又流浪着进入欧洲，最后把所有钱花光，变得衣衫褴褛，穷困潦倒；他站在西班牙巴塞罗纳海湾岸边，忽然一股巨浪卷入&赫拉克勒斯墩&中间，这个贫穷痛苦、备受折磨、奄奄一息的人抵挡不住那极大诱惑，纵身跳入卷来的浪潮中，沉入泛泡的浪头下，从此再没起来。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失