倾家荡产 meaning in English
dissipate one's fortune; become bankrupt; bring the family to ruin; family ruined and its property all lost; has risked the ruin [destruction] of one's family and the loss of one's fortune; lose a family fortune; lose all one's property; make sb. bankrupt; reduced to poverty and ruin; ruin one's family and dissipate one's fortune; run through one's fortune; spend one's entire fortune (to do); spend one's whole fortune (on); squander inherited property and ruin the family; whittle away one's family fortune
Examples
- The plaintiff had won, but was ruined financially .
原告虽然胜诉，如弄得倾家荡产。 - Farmers are ruined, and have to move to better land .
农民已倾家荡产，不得不迁移到较好的土地上去。 - Yes, some people do "go to the dogs" by going to "the dogs" .
噢，有些人就是由于去跑狗，而倾家荡产。 - He lost his all .
他已倾家荡产。 - The slave-driver lashed us desperately, for he saw ruin before him .
那个奴隶贩子觉得自己眼看就要倾家荡产，于是拼命拿鞭子抽我们。