貧病交迫貧病交加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，那禁得貧病交攻，竟?jié)u漸的露出了那下世的光景來。(《紅樓夢(mèng)》11) Ageing and a prey to poverty and ill health,he began to look like a man with one foot in the grave. 貧病交迫suffer from both poverty and sickness;plagued by poverty and illness |