People who are downtrodden are treated very badly by people with power, and do not have the ability or the energy to do anything about it.
例句
The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants...物主靠壓榨農(nóng)民而贏得暴利。His mother was old, badly dressed and obviously downtrodden.他母親老了，衣著破舊，顯然嘗盡了苦難。