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单词 hardscrabble
释义 hardscrabble
I. adjective
Etymology: hard (I) + scrabble, n.
: yielding or gaining a bare or meager living with greatest difficulty or hardest labor : barren, impoverished, marginal
 < ranges from hardscrabble farms in the hilly portions … to productive farms on prairie land — Social Forces >
 < a rather hardscrabble life … among people who had few comforts and amenities — Henry Beston >
 < a hardscrabble farmer >
 < till their hardscrabble acres … intensively — Pa. Game News >
II. noun
: hardscrabble land
 < homestead of field, stream, hayfield, and hardscrabble — S.T.Williamson >
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