down-at-heel

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

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：在破舊骯髒的黑澤市，至今仍保存有漂亮的明信片和現(xiàn)在居住在那裡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.
故事伊始畫麪定格在一些天使，一群蒼鷺，一個幽霛和一座破舊骯髒的旅館，愛麗斯霍夫曼開始講述三個女人各自迥異不同的生活，由此讅眡人性的脆弱。
Old houses sometimes look down - at - the - heel.
老房子有時看起來破舊不堪。

They have kept it in sparkling condition, and primped some slightly down-at-heel rooms with subtle redecoration.
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For the time being, strong family ties help keep destitution at bay for most of the down-at-heel.
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There is not much to the village now: a few boarded-up houses, a couple of shops, a down-at-heel courthouse.
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Something that is down-at-heel is in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been cared for properly. If you say that someone is down-at-heel, you mean that they are wearing old, worn clothes because they have little money.