British EnglishBrEDCCONDITION/STATE OF somethingunattractive and not well cared for, because of a lack of money 潦倒的,邋遢的
The town today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.
如今这个市镇成了破旧邋遢的地方。
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down-at-heel• But I didn't see any sign of it at WinterMarsh - the place just looked down-at-heel.• But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heelglitz.• Bognor today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.• Central Leipzig presented a similarly surrealmixture of eageraspirations and a down-at-heelrecent past.• He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heelspit and gobsaloon to a down-at-heelsuccess.