hardscrabble 的定义
- providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
更多hardscrabble例句
- The limited series’ depiction of the hardscrabble poor may prove more controversial.
- I didn’t have a hardscrabble upbringing in the sense of deep poverty.
- Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence.
- But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine.
- For many fans, her hardscrabble youth and rough-and-tumble style were viewed as endearing strengths.
- At Big Valley, a co-ed pre-K-12 in hardscrabble Modesto, Calif., the trip to Washington D.C. has been an annual rite of passage.
- In his hardscrabble campaign, there might not even have been a podium ready to welcome him.
- They moved into a large house which had been a tavern in the days when lumber had been cut around Hardscrabble.
- Mr. Anthony had the name Hardscrabble changed to Center Falls, and was made postmaster.
- In March, 1839, the family moved to Hardscrabble, a small village two miles further down the Battenkill.
- Its cost was to be seventy thousand dollars, which was an enormous sum in those hardscrabble days.
- Mr. and Mrs. Ronayne and the Doctor rode out soon after dinner, sir, in the direction of Hardscrabble.