ㄇㄧㄣˊmínㄕㄥshēngㄉㄧㄠdiāoㄅㄧˋ

  1. 人民生活困苦城市戰亂民生凋敝百廢待舉。」

the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom)​; a time of famine and impoverishment