hardscrabble

hardscrabble

美 [?hɑrd?skræb(?)l] 　英 [?hɑ?(r)d?skræb(?)l]

• adj.艱難困苦的；貧困的；勉強維持的
• 網絡貧瘠的；貧寒；哈德斯克拉布爾山

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

英英解釋

例句

For those hardscrabble families, government subsidies no doubt would be welcomed.

對于那些貧窮的家庭，毫無疑問政府津貼會受到歡迎。

for starters, chery is just a five year old state-owned enterprise, based in a hardscrabble town of wuhu, anhui province.

剛開始，奇瑞不過是一間只有五年歷史的坐落在安徽，蕪湖一個貧瘠奇瑞報價的國營企業。

He was born in the hardscrabble South. His father was a drunk who killed his own brother in a gunfight.

他生于貧瘠荒蕪的美國南部，父親是一名酒鬼，在一次槍械格斗中擊斃了兄長。

A few days after the funeral, my dad and I played golf on Spur's hardscrabble course.

葬禮之后過了幾天，爸爸和我在斯珀鎮那貧瘠土地的高爾夫球場上打球。

Gruff, traditional and hawkish on military matters, he was the perfect fit for his district, a hardscrabble slice of western Pennsylvania.

在軍事問題上，他一貫表現出生硬、傳統的鷹派作風，這對于他所在的賓夕法尼亞西部的一小塊貧困的選區來說，是最合適不過的了。

He's a bear of a man with a hardscrabble past, an art professor who paints beautiful pictures of birds.

他負擔重，過去的日子過得很拮據，是位花鳥畫造詣很好的美術教授。

To attract workers, BHP and other companies are building recreation centers, sports fields and art galleries in hardscrabble company towns.

為了吸引工人，必和必拓和其他公司正在原本是不毛之地的礦區小鎮興建休閑中心、體育場和藝術畫廊。

To attract them, BHP and other companies are building recreation centers, sports fields and art galleries in hardscrabble company towns.

為了吸引工人，必和必拓和其它公司正在公司所在的窮鄉僻壤興建娛樂中心、體育場和畫廊等設施。

Yet the emerging picture is horrendous, especially for ordinary people in the lesser cities and hardscrabble northern provinces.

然而這些浮出水面的描述異常可怕，特別是對于居于較小城市和赤貧的北部省份的居民來說更是如此。

a hardscrabble farm; poor soil.

貧瘠的農場；貧瘠的土壤。