2016年4月29日金曜日

hardscrabble 過酷な環境で


hardscrabble は働いても働いても生活が楽にならない、過酷な生活環境の意味です。 1:20 it wasn't easy for Parks to return home. Kansas and Fort Scott had been rife with racism throughout his hardscrabble childhood.

Photog's hunt for childhood friends shows segregation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iyIbbxVzrU  5:40 I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania. and that's as hardscrabble a place as you're gonna find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZwvnTb5pQY   0:40 We wanted to juxtapose the worlds of East London, the hardscrabble worlds of working London with the grandeur of Central London.
‘Suffragette’ | Anatomy of a Scene w/ Director Sarah Gavron | The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6VTb3VgfA  2:25 Carly is brilliant and capable, and yet she experienced the hardscrabble world of being a female professional in a business world that extract a price.
Ted Cruz Names Carly Fiorina As Running Mate | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yDn-s1sDk  11:12 it's still a hardscrabble lifesyle. there's no pharmacy. there's no dry cleaner. it's hard to get things.
Marfa, Texas The capital of quirkiness

参考リンク
http://bridge-english.blogspot.jp/2014/11/hard-slog.html  hard slog

練習問題解答
b-1345 in the hardscrabble world of Republican politics