he moved to new york and performed an untraditional roster of penniless actor jobs – yoga instructor, manure shoveller, railroad-loader.
他搬到纽约,成为一名一贫如洗的演员,他的工作表上有许多非传统工作——教瑜伽、铲肥料、铺铁路。
food was provided for penniless but hungry travelers at the two or three daily feed-ins.
每天举行两三次施舍,为身无分文的饑饿行人供应食物。
and it was like that for most of my friends (some died, penniless and gaunt, along the way, but it was best like that, for them).
多数我的朋友也都拥有相同的经历(有些死了,自始至终身无分文、辘辘饑肠,但对于他们这也是最好的结局)。
huo returned to lanzhou penniless but couldn「t stay.
霍先生身无分文回到兰州,但最终没能呆下去。
this was how my father joined the long line of penniless and miserable turkish intellectuals who had been walking the streets of paris for a century already.
这样我父亲就加入了身无分文、悲惨的大军。土耳其的知识分子在巴黎的街头巷尾游蕩已经有一个世纪的历史了。
take stella, a successful businesswoman: she is penniless by the end of every month, despite her generous salary, and ends up borrowing money from her partner to pay the bills.
比如斯特拉,她是一个成功的商场女强人,却是个月光族,不仅把她丰厚的薪水花光了,居然还需要找合伙人借钱来买单。
my first serious love affair was with a penniless classical guitarist who lived in a garret in islington.
我第一次认真的恋情是和一个身无分文的古典吉他手,他住在伊斯灵顿的小阁楼上。
as generally happens in such cases, the moment he was penniless he found that he was friendless too.
接下来像大多数这类故事的情节一样,在一文不名的时候,他发现连朋友也没有了。
the duchess, it appears, is by her own admission virtually penniless after her divorce from the duke of york left her with only 15, 000 pounds a year.
据这位公爵夫人自己承认,她在与丈夫离婚后,每年只有1.5万英镑的赡养费,这看来可以说是身无分文了。
and though he knows i」m absolutely penniless he tells me every day about some cheap room he has just discovered in the neighborhood.
他明知我一文不名,可还是每天都告诉我他刚刚在附近找到了廉价出租的房间。
alexander hamilton, truly a remarkable young man, was penniless and family-lesswhen he immigrated to new york in 1772 fromthe west indies.
1772年,当真正的奇才亚历山大?汉密尔顿从西印度群岛移居纽约的时候,他还是一个身无分文、举目无亲的年轻人。
a strange shy man with a cultured voice but almost penniless stepped ashore in melbourne in 1934 and unrolled some drawings tied up in a singlet.
1934年的墨尔本,一个腼腆的陌生男人从海边踏上陆地;他声音里透着修养,却几乎身无分文。
when the holiday went commercial, its greatest champion gave everything to fight it, dying penniless and broken in a sanitarium.
节日变得商业化,它最大的拥护者放弃所有为它而战,死得一文不值,在疗养院里腐烂。