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。

It was a hardscrabble oil boom in jingbian .

当时靖边石油开采狂热、混乱。

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。

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。

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。