worse off 英[wə:s ɔf] 美[wɚs ɔf]
恶化，情况更坏；愈加贫穷的；每况愈下的（是badly off的比较级，better off的反义词）

worse off一般用be worse off，在和使役动词连用时不需要be，如：
1. Youth are worse off financially than before.
2. Most British fear their children will be worse off than they are.
3. Almost three-quarters of the French think they will be worse off a decade from now, and so do half of all those polled in Germany, despite its economic recovery.
4. If you lose your job, we’ll be worse off.
5. This situation will leave us worse off.
6. Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.

英语中使役动词是表示使、令、让、帮、叫等意义的不完全及物动词，主要有leave（离开）.get（得到）.keep（保持）.make（使， 令），let（让），help（帮助），have（有；让；从事；允许；拿）等。