单词 | down-at-heel |
释义 | Related topics: Clothes & fashionˌdown-at-ˈheel adjective British EnglishDCCONDITION/STATE OF something unattractive and not well cared for, because of a lack of money 潦倒的,邋遢的 The town today is a shabby, down-at-heel place. 如今这个市镇成了破旧邋遢的地方。Examples from the Corpusdown-at-heel• But I didn't see any sign of it at Winter Marsh - the place just looked down-at-heel.• But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz.• Bognor today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.• Central Leipzig presented a similarly surreal mixture of eager aspirations and a down-at-heel recent past.• He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heel spit and gob saloon to a down-at-heel success.ˌdown-at-ˈheel adjectiveChineseSyllable of well cared because not unattractive for, Corpus and a |
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