down-at-heel

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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：在破舊肮髒的黑澤市，至今仍保存有漂亮的明信片和現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肮髒的旅館，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.