窮酸相

wretched look / shabby looks

each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])

appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid

poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant