in rags

基本解释

“Remember the simple soul of your brothers and sisters in rags, ” she counseled herself.
“记住那些裹在破布片中的你的兄弟姐妹们的真诚的灵魂，”她给自己忠告。
Looking up I saw that we were surrounded by children in rags who were looking at us silently as we ate.
我抬头一看，发现我们被一群衣衫褴褛的小孩团团围住了，他们在默不作声地看着我们吃饭。
There was never enough help for her, and the arrival of her son Jack, out of work and dressed in rags, and a daughter she scarcely knew, pregnant and penniless, made things desperate.
她总是困顿窘迫、需要帮助，儿女的投奔更把她推向绝望的境地，失业的儿子杰克衣衫褴褛，陌生的女儿怀着身孕、一文不名。

He was dressed in rags. He died four days later in a hospital.
But the sight of workers wearing white protective suits and gloves hauling in tons of oil-contaminated waste - including bags of sandy tar balls, vegetation,used oil booms, rags and other clean-up supplies - has caused alarm among some Gulf coast communities.

Barefoot children in rags race among the huts.
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If you were a VC during that time and had "been there and done that, " your gimlet eyes would have seen Steve Jobs as no different from 100 other "Napoleons in rags" who wanted your capital.
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