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DEFINITIVE EXAMPLES 权威例句〔hardscrabble〕The town is also home to hardscrabble residents who have to eat at the soup kitchen.这个小镇还有一些贫困居民,他们只能在施食处分得一点吃的。朗文当代〔homebound〕They deliver meals to homebound people.他们给困居家中的人送餐。韦氏高阶〔housebound〕Confined to one's home, as by illness.(因病等)不能离家的,困居家中的美国传统〔obligation〕Every community had a moral obligation to its own poor.每个社区在道义上都有责任照顾本社区的贫困居民。外研社新世纪 |