颠沛流离
[词典] （生活艰难， 四处流浪） wander [drift] from place to place, enduring many hardships; be a vagabond, not by choice but by necessity; be put to one's shift, away from home; be vagrant on account of poverty;
[例句]在旧社会，残酷的剥削和连年不断的军阀混战，使劳动人民过着颠沛流离的生活。
In the old society, owing to cruel exploitation and succesive years of tangled warfare among warloads, the labouring people led a vagrant life.