英语释义

• of a bare living gained by great labor;

  "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"

  "a marginal existence"

• yielding little by great labor;

  "a hardscrabble farm"

  "poor soil"

片语

Dean Hardscrabble饰郝刻薄院长

A Hardscrabble Farm贫瘠农场

underprivileged贫困的；被剥夺基本权力的；社会地位低下的

W Hardscrabble Mesa街道地址

Hardscrabble Rd地址

needy(Needy)人名；(英)尼迪

英汉例句

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

  为了吸引工人，必和必拓和其他公司正在原本是不毛之地的矿区小镇兴建休閑中心、体育场和艺术画廊。

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

  为了吸引工人，必和必拓和其它公司正在公司所在的穷乡僻壤兴建娱乐中心、体育场和画廊等设施。

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

  他负担重，过去的日子过得很拮据，是位花鸟画造诣很好的美术教授。

• 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。

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

  在军事问题上，他一贯表现出生硬、传统的鹰派作风，这对于他所在的宾夕法尼亚西部的一小块贫困的选区来说，是最合适不过的了。

• a hardscrabble farm; poor soil.

  贫瘠的农场；贫瘠的土壤。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

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

  刚开始，奇瑞不过是一间只有五年历史的坐落在安徽，芜湖一个贫瘠奇瑞报价的国营企业。

相似词

barren贫瘠的；不生育的；无益的；沉闷无趣的；空洞的

deadad 完全地

desolate使荒凉；使孤寂

impoverished使贫困（impoverish的过去分词）

infertile不肥沃的；不毛的；不结果实的；不能生殖的

poor(Poor) （美）普尔（人名）

stark(Stark)人名；(俄、罗)斯塔尔克；(英、芬、法、瑞典)斯塔克；(德)施塔克

unfertile不富饶的；不肥沃的

unproductive非生产性的；徒劳的；不毛的；不生产的

waste浪费；变消瘦；挥霍钱财

相反词

fertile富饶的，肥沃的；能生育的

fruitful富有成效的；多产的；果实结得多的

lush丰富的，豪华的；苍翠繁茂的

luxuriant繁茂的，浓密的；丰富的，肥沃的，奢华的

productive能生产的；生产的，生产性的；多产的；富有成效的

rich油腻的，含有很多脂肪