貧病交迫

beset by poverty and illness (idiom)

poor / inadequate / deficient / garrulous

illness / CL:場|场[chang2] / disease / to fall ill / defect

to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]

to be beleaguered

variant of 迫[po4] / to persecute / to oppress / embarrassed

to force / to compel / to approach or go towards / urgent / pressing