hardscrabble

1 Surprisingly, he sees those hardscrabble years through a scrim of nostalgia.

2 “Him” has all the above, and while Ms. Foote’s Tremont bears similarities to her father’s Harrison, her world is shellacked with a hardscrabble Yankee fortitude that allows her women to forge ahead, right or wrong.

3 Not for his hardscrabble life, not for bad behaviors, not for sexual misadventures, not for being poor, not for dreaming, not for yearning, not for erupting in joy.

4 It was considerably colder, with a gloomy sky and constant mist, as he began another six or so miles through a hilly, hardscrabble neighborhood.

5 Asawa’s mother got her hair permed for the first time and socialized with the other women at the camp, activities her hardscrabble farm life never allowed.

6 With emotional delicacy and a lightly expressionistic visual style, Rockwell brings both Inez and New York to life, skillfully setting one woman’s hardscrabble personal story against a larger political backdrop.

7 He knew the hidden details, and told vibrant, strangely funny stories featuring the grit and detritus of hardscrabble lives in the fetid South.

8 We meet, again, hardscrabble poor folk and ambitious politicians; we find, again, creepy totems left at the crime scene and intimations of the occult.

9 As de Bernières's deceptively simple novella showed, Red Dog became a powerful founding story for the tough towns that grew up around the hardscrabble mines of the 1970s.

10 Trumbo also felt a special bond with them, sharing a checkered education and hardscrabble upbringing.

11 And I can testify that the U.P. also encompasses many delightful and flourishing smaller towns that are anything but “hardscrabble.”

12 For decades he supported himself and three daughters doing manual labor, unaware that his music — songs of protest and hardscrabble life rendered in a heartfelt tenor — had resonated in South Africa.

13 it was hard to eke out even a bare existence on the hardscrabble lands

14 But when I read about Lenski’s Florida “crackers,” I thought they were the hardscrabble ones, deserving all my sympathy.

15 Featuring a lyrical flow over synthesized drums, it is an offshoot of Atlanta-style trap and speaks to the day-to-day struggles of hardscrabble hoods.

16 While the tight fit and multicolored horizontal stripes have proved appealing, the garments are actually meant to be kind of raggedy, capturing the hardscrabble life in 1870s Maine.

17 At an early moment in “Gaamer,” the main character, a young man named Koss, listens as a friend in their hardscrabble Ukrainian town tells him it’s impossible to attain greatness “in this hole.”

18 Even the most experienced home cook could have trouble keeping up with the orders, let alone managing a line of hardscrabble kitchen jockeys.

19 Young and Lasky vividly re-create the hardscrabble life of the Carters before music put cash in their pockets.

20 He was the awkward son of hardscrabble immigrants, big-chested, bowlegged and with shovel-like hands that threw rocks and dirt to first base along with the ball.

1 贫困的

needy distressed deprived destitute

2 不毛的

waste barren infertile inhospitable

3 贫瘠

poor hungry poverty lean sterile bony infertile boney unfertile thin sterilize impoverish out of heart

4 贫困

needy distressed deprived destitute want poverty distress deprivation privation penury

5 不毛

waste barren infertile inhospitable sterilize

6 勉强维持

overstretch

7 贫瘠的

poor hungry lean sterile bony infertile boney unfertile thin