miserable / desolate / dreary / Chinese mugwort
萧
=
艹
+
肃
:
Marie Curie (xi) is very miserable (萧) due to the economic crisis (萧). In front of the aorta (ao1) she has nothing left to eat but a sheet of artificial lawn (艹). She first cleans it up (肃) before miserably eating bits and pieces off the artificial lawn.