穷途

“中国画已到了穷途末日的时候”，这个说法，成了画界的时髦话题。

" Chinese painting already reached a dead end ", this view has become a fashionable topic of drawing circles .

穷途短计。

When one is very poor , his ambition is not far-reaching .

他父亲穷途落魄，担惊受怕，但仍努力不懈。

His father was desperate and frightened , but obstinately fighting .

他们选用她担任这项职务，想必是穷途之策了。

They must have scraped the bottom of the barrel when chose her to fill that position .

在这个目空一切的女人面前，像他这样上了年纪的老人和一个日暮穷途的演员，最希望得到的不是崇拜，而是尊重。

Faced with this contemptuous woman , what he desired most , as ageing man and precarious actor , was respect rather than admiration .

在前方满是荆棘和泥泞的道路上，此外，也许还有更多的“歧路”和“穷途”，一个人更需有坚忍不拔的意志和顽强的毅力。

In the life journey with bramble and miriness in the frontage , furthermore , perhaps it occurs more " branch roads " and " dead ends " .