饥寒交迫

MEANING

1. 壹形adjective

   beset by hunger and cold (idiom)

   • tāmenguòzhejīhánjiāopòdeshēnghuó.

     他们过着饥寒交迫的生活。🔊

     They lived a life of poverty and hardship, suffering from both hunger and cold.

2. 貳形adjective

   starving and freezing

   • tāmenguòzhejīhánjiāopòdeshēnghuó.

     他们过着饥寒交迫的生活。🔊

     They lived in dire poverty, suffering from both hunger and cold.

3. 參形adjective

   in desperate poverty

   • tāmenshēnghuózàijīhánjiāopòzhīzhōng.

     他们生活在饥寒交迫之中。🔊

     They lived in extreme poverty, suffering from both hunger and cold.