“我要吃土了！” 英語哭窮遠不止吃土！
每個月尾，都感覺自己都窮到要吃土了。房租水電交通費，包包衣服新口紅。橫批：窮窮窮。很多童鞋對於“窮”，腦海裏就只有poor，今天英語君就帶着大家暢遊“窮”的海洋，來感受一下什麼做知識的富有。
（1）dirt-poor非常窮困的
In fact, he grew up dirt-poor in rural Tennessee.
事實上，他在貧窮的田納西鄉下長大。
Where would the dirt-poor Tom get a hundred dollars?
湯姆這個窮光蛋到哪兒弄一百元去？
（2）max out credit cards 刷爆卡
Even the metered fare will max out your credit card.
即便打表，打車費用也會刷爆你的信用卡。
She's maxed out three credit cards.
她已經刷爆了三張卡了。
（3）be broke身無分文
I'm gonna be broke in a month.
不出一個月我就身無分文了。
I seem to be permanently broke.
我似乎永遠沒錢。
（4）live from hand to mouth度日維艱
We live from hand to mouth because my father is an accountant with a low salary.
我們過着僅能餬口的生活，因爲我父親只是個薪水很低的會計員。
When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.
去年冬天沒找到工作，我不得不過着勉強餬口的生活。
（5）not have a bean囊中羞澀
He doesn't have a bean, but she's set on marrying him.
雖然他沒錢，可她還是決意要嫁她。
(6) On one's uppers一貧如洗
Joe invited us out to lunch because we were both on our uppers.
瓊請我們出去吃飯，因爲我倆都沒錢了。
(7) down and out 窮困潦倒
Sarah was down and out after losing her job and her apartment.
莎拉在失去她的工作和房子後，就窮困潦倒了。
Would you still love me, when I'm down and out?
當我窮困潦倒時你是否依舊愛我？
(8) pauper窮光蛋
And, of course, when he died, he didn't die a pauper.
當然，他臨終時並非是個窮光蛋。
He did not take kindly to the tag of pauper.
他可不喜歡別人叫他作窮光蛋。
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