贫病交迫贫病交加pín bìng jiāo pòa prey to poverty and ill health; be beset (/plagued)by(/with) poverty and illness (at one and the same time); be sick and in straits; suffer from both poverty and sickness;be sick as well as poor
❍ 暮年之人，那禁得贫病交攻，竟渐渐的露出了那下世的光景来。(《红楼梦》11) Ageing and a prey to poverty and ill health,he began to look like a man with one foot in the grave. 贫病交迫suffer from both poverty and sickness;plagued by poverty and illness |