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]

号寒啼饥因冻馁而号哭。形容极为贫困。语出唐韩愈《进学解》：“冬暖而儿号寒，年丰而妻啼饥。”[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]

贫病交加同“贫病交迫”。[查看详情]

哀鸿遍野《诗经小雅鸿雁》：“鸿雁于飞哀鸣嗷嗷。”后用哀鸿遍野比喻流离失所、呻吟呼号的灾民到处都是。英starving people fill the land; disaster victim everywhere;[查看详情]

嗷嗷待哺嗷嗷：哀号声；待：等待；哺：哺育喂养。原意指小鸟饥饿时叫着要东西吃的样子。后常用以形容饥民渴求得食而急待解救的悲惨情景。例可奈满城无粮嗷嗷待哺。——蔡东藩《唐史演义》英cry piteously for food; waiting to be fed with cries of hunger;[查看详情]