卖儿鬻女见“卖男鬻女”。[查看详情]

家徒四壁家中极端贫困空无所有，徒有四堵墙壁树立。英utterly destitute; be empty of all furniture; be extremely poor with only the walls of the household standing; with nothing is one's house but bare walls;[查看详情]

家贫如洗家中非常贫穷如被水冲洗过一样什么也没有。英be in extreme poverty; as poor as a church mouse; as poor as job;[查看详情]

卖男鬻女谓因生活所迫而出卖自己的儿女。[查看详情]

民不聊生形容人民不能安定生活。例公私劳扰民不聊生。——苏轼《上神宗皇帝书》话中单说建州饥荒斗米千钱，民不聊生。——《京本通俗小说》英the people have no means of livelihood; It is hard for the people to survive; life for the people is intolerable; the peopl[查看详情]

衣衫褴褛见“衣衫蓝缕”。[查看详情]

饔飧不继指生活贫困吃了上顿没有下顿。英meals are scanty;[查看详情]

青黄不接青：指未成熟的庄稼。黄：指已成熟的庄稼。青黄不接即旧的粮食已经吃完新的还未收割，比喻人力、财力等因一时接续不上而暂时缺乏。现在则特指人才方面后继无人。例这个奇迹般的记录也反映了我国剑坛当时青黄不接的状况。英temporary shortage;[查看详情]

饥寒交迫受冷挨饿穷困之极。英be poverty-stricken; be hungry and pinched with cold; live in pestering hunger and cold; suffer cold and hunger; be miserable from cold and hunger;[查看详情]

等米下锅形容家无存粮生活穷困。亦比喻只是消极等待条件成熟而不在工作中积极创造条件。例外头也有些体面家里还过得，就规规矩矩侍候本官升了还能够不像那些等米下锅的。英await urgently necessary condition;—《红楼梦》[查看详情]

食不果腹吃不饱肚子。形容生活贫困。语本《庄子逍遥游》：“适莽苍者三飡而反，腹犹果然。”[查看详情]

一穷二白比喻基础薄弱指工农业生产落后文化、科学水平低下。英be poor and blank; be backward both economically and culturally;[查看详情]

艰难竭蹶生活困苦难以自立。竭蹶力竭颠仆。喻生活难以维持。[查看详情]

一贫如洗穷得家里像被水洗过似的。形容一无所有。英as poor as church mouse; dirt-poor; penniless;[查看详情]

缺吃少穿谓衣食困乏。[查看详情]

短吃少穿谓衣食困乏。[查看详情]

吃糠咽菜糠：稻、麦等谷物的皮；菜：野菜。指吃谷糠吞野菜。形容生活的贫困与艰辛。[查看详情]

啼饥号寒因饥寒交迫而啼哭。英cry from hunger and cold; cry in hunger and cold;形容饥寒交迫、生活极端困苦。英live in hunger and cold; be poverty-stricken;[查看详情]

挨饿受冻遭受饥饿与寒冷侵袭。指无衣无食的穷困境况。同“挨冻受饿”。[查看详情]

挨冻受饿指无衣无食的穷困境况。[查看详情]