他们两个人都死于穷困潦倒。
在乔治•奥威尔约80年前以史诗笔法在《巴黎伦敦落魄记》中写下穷困潦倒者的生活后,有什么改变了吗?
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed?
其幅员辽阔,但穷困潦倒的东南亚邻国也将收入数十亿,只要他们加紧对其大量原始矿石储备的开采力度。
Its big, poor South-East Asian neighbours would also be earning billions if they had been quicker to exploit their vast, untapped reserves of ores.
没有母亲,查理·卓别林充其量也只是维多利亚时期伦敦城里又一位穷困潦倒的儿童。
Without her, Charlie Chaplin would have become just one more child lost in the poverty of Victorian London.
她和孩子上次吃饭是在一天前,食物还是穷困潦倒的邻居们分享的。
She and her children had last eaten a day earlier, when neighbors - themselves impossibly poor - Shared some of their food.
马尔瓦·柯林斯,美国教育工作者,于1975年在伊利诺伊州,芝加哥附近穷困潦倒的加菲尔德园开办了西岸预备学校。
Marva Collins is an American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
流浪汉们则大多一字不识,面对自身的穷困潦倒,他们脑子里是同样的一片空白,无计可施。
Tramps, unlettered types as nearly all of them are, face their poverty with blank, resourceless minds.
数以千计更多的则是在国内负债累累,穷困潦倒。
我们和另一个女人聊过。一开始,她穷困潦倒,有四个孩子或死于饥饿,或死于疾病。
One woman we talked to had started in such penury that four of her children had died of starvation or disease.
或者,会更像20世纪前四分之三个世纪的情况那样,由于大国之间的严重冲突,亚洲地区动荡不安、穷困潦倒?
Or will it be more like the first three-quarters of the 20th century, when Asia was rocked and impoverished by major conflicts among the major powers?
人们通常认为白人男性更富有,更有教养,更体贴,而亚洲男性则往往穷困潦倒,举止粗俗,还很自私。
White men have been generally seen as wealthier, more cultured and more considerate while Asian men have been seen as impoverished, uncouth and self-centered.
在美国人的脑子里,租房者被视为是穷困潦倒、存心与美国梦作对的人。
In the American mind, renters are regarded as an unsavorylot, willful dissidents from the American dream.
萨马圆脸,一头浓密的黑发笼在头巾里,她穷困潦倒,身无分文。他的丈夫身无长物,好吃懒做,丢了工作,而且没人愿意雇用他。
A round-faced woman with thick black hair tucked into a head scarf, Saima had barely a rupee, and her deadbeat husband was unemployed and not particularly employable.
为何还有那么多人穷困潦倒、无家可归?
Why does He let people struggle financially or become homeless?
一家报纸的报道称马库斯·加维死的时候“穷困潦倒、孤苦无依、不得人心”,而这位民权活动家不得不对这家报纸提起诉讼。
The civil rights activist Marcus Garvey though had to complain to a paper that reported he had died "broke alone and unpopular".
法国对这个提议同样漫不经心,只有穷困潦倒的希腊表示了欢迎。
The French seemed less than enamoured. Only the poor Greeks welcomed it.
一年过去了,灾后重建工作停滞不前,居民生活穷困潦倒。
One year later, reconstruction work has achieved little progress, while people, since the earthquake, have always been living in tents without decent life they deserve.
其实绝大多数的演员报酬都很低,如果不是幸运地得到一个角色的机会,有些人甚至可以说是穷困潦倒。
The great majority of actors and actresses are paid very little and some are almost at poverty levels until they might be lucky to get a role.
戴上黑色的墨镜,穿着破破烂烂的衣服,拿着一根拐棍,坐在马路上,于是小动物们都以为这是一位穷困潦倒的老奶奶。
Wearing black sunglasses, dressed in a worn shabby clothes, holding a walking stick, sitting in the street, so small animals thought this is an impoverished old grandma.
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。
He was a poor old man, down and out, with many wrinkles on his weather-beaten face.
对于穷困潦倒的加里亚当地居民来说,偷抢煤块和去倒塌建筑里拾荒是十分危险的谋生手段。
For the impoverished local residents of Jharia, stealing coal to sell and picking through collapsed buildings for salvageable material is a dangerous way of life.
当我们不得不卖掉房子,搬到市区的一间小公寓住时,我们感到我们的确已经穷困潦倒了。
When we had to sell our house and take a small apartment downtown, we felt we'd really moved down in the world.
“黄粱梦”讲的是一个穷困潦倒的书生睡熟之后梦见了自己梦寐以求的午餐。
Golden Millet Dream is a story about a poor, unhappy scholar who fell asleep while waiting for his lunch.
我再也不想过穷困潦倒的生活。
为了能多少逃脱母亲的穷困潦倒,皮普接受了一份位于玻利维亚丛林中的流氓网站的短期实习,这个网站暴露了公司和国家的肮脏秘密。
At least partially to escape her mother's neediness, Pip accepts an internship with a rogue Web site in the jungles of Bolivia that exposes the nasty secrets of corporations and nations.
尽管社会保障体系颇为强大——包括免费教育和医保——但一些沙特人依然穷困潦倒,很多中产阶级人士只能勉强糊口。
Despite a robust social safety net - including free education and health care - there are poor Saudis, and many in the middle class barely make ends meet.
尽管社会保障体系颇为强大——包括免费教育和医保——但一些沙特人依然穷困潦倒,很多中产阶级人士只能勉强糊口。
Despite a robust social safety net - including free education and health care - there are poor Saudis, and many in the middle class barely make ends meet.
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