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hardscrabble

英 [hɑːd'skræbl]

adj. 贫脊的；贫困的
n. 贫瘠之农地

英英释意

1. yielding little by great labor;: "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"

2. of a bare living gained by great labor;: "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"