hardscrabble
发音
英 [ˌhɑ:dˈskræbl]
美 [ˌhɑrdˈskræbl]
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- adj.
- <美>贫脊的，非常穷困的
单词词源
hardscrabble 困难的，贫困的
hard,坚硬的，艰苦的，scrabble,摸，找，挣扎。即贫瘠的土地上寻生计，土里刨食，引申词义困难的，艰苦的。
双语例句
- 1. A few days after the funeral , my dad and I played golf on spur 's hardscrabble course .
- 葬礼之后过了几天，爸爸和我在斯珀镇那贫瘠土地的高尔夫球场上打球。
- 2. It was a hardscrabble oil boom in jingbian .
- 当时靖边石油开采狂热、混乱。
- 3. For those hardscrabble families , government subsidies no doubt would be welcomed .
- 对于那些贫穷的家庭，毫无疑问政府津贴会受到欢迎。
- 4. He was born in the hardscrabble south . His father was a drunk who killed his own brother in a gunfight .
- 他生于贫瘠荒芜的美国南部，父亲是一名酒鬼，在一次枪械格斗中击毙了兄长。
- 5. Yet the emerging picture is horrendous , especially for ordinary people in the lesser cities and hardscrabble northern provinces .
- 然而这些浮出水面的描述异常可怕，特别是对于居于较小城市和赤贫的北部省份的居民来说更是如此。