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;
但他开起玩笑来也很有一套：在破旧肮脏的黑泽市，至今仍保存有漂亮的明信片和现在居住在那里的移民使用的各种钱币；
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.
故事伊始画面定格在一些天使，一群苍鹭，一个幽灵和一座破旧肮脏的旅馆，爱丽斯霍夫曼开始讲述三个女人各自迥异不同的生活，由此审视人性的脆弱。
Old houses sometimes look down - at - the - heel.
老房子有时看起来破旧不堪。

They have kept it in sparkling condition, and primped some slightly down-at-heel rooms with subtle redecoration.
ECONOMIST: The nicest house in London
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.