down-at-heel

常見例句

雙語例句

• But his jokes are great: down-at-heel Blackpool preserving its saucy postcards and its half-dozen varieties of chips for the immigrant families who now live there;
  但他開起玩笑來也很有一套：在破舊骯臟的黑澤市，至今仍保存有漂亮的明信片和現(xiàn)在居住在那里的移民使用的各種錢幣；
• ANGELS, herons, a ghost and a down-at-heel hotel anchor Alice Hoffman's examination of human vulnerability, which she tells through the lives of three different women.
  故事伊始畫面定格在一些天使，一群蒼鷺，一個幽靈和一座破舊骯臟的旅館，愛麗斯霍夫曼開始講述三個女人各自迥異不同的生活，由此審視人性的脆弱。
• Old houses sometimes look down - at - the - heel.
  老房子有時看起來破舊不堪。

權威例句

• They have kept it in sparkling condition, and primped some slightly down-at-heel rooms with subtle redecoration.
  ECONOMIST: The nicest house in London
• For the time being, strong family ties help keep destitution at bay for most of the down-at-heel.
  ECONOMIST: Saudi Arabia on the dole
• There is not much to the village now: a few boarded-up houses, a couple of shops, a down-at-heel courthouse.
  ECONOMIST: America’s highways
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