From her hardscrabble beginnings to glittering stardom, Ms. Parton’s life was the stuff of make-believe.
從艱苦的出身到璀璨的巨星之路,多莉‧帕頓的人生宛如童話。
Hardscrabble is an adjective that describes a difficult, impoverished environment or a life of constant, grinding struggle and hard work just to get by
- 形容生活或環境:指貧困、充滿掙扎且付出極大努力卻只能勉強維持生存的狀態。
- hardscrabble life:艱苦度日的生活
- hardscrabble existence:勉強餬口的日子
- hardscrabble farm:貧瘠難耕的農場 [1]
With her voluptuous figure, sparkly stage costumes and blond bouffant wigs, she was likened by the writer Chet Flippo to the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the Depression-era symbol of abundance.
她身材豐滿,舞台服裝閃亮奪目,頭戴蓬鬆的金色假髮,作家切特·弗利波將她比作“大岩糖山”,那是經濟大蕭條時期象徵富足的標誌。
The novel is named after the folk song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains", which is about a mythical paradise.[1]
- 基本定義:指缺乏食物、水、住所或安全感等基本生存條件,或是陷入極度貧窮的狀態。
- 詞性:名詞(Noun), KK 音標為
/praɪˈveɪʃən/。 - 常見搭配:severe privation(嚴重的困苦/匱乏)。
- Deprivation:剝奪、喪失(常與 privation 混用,但在心理學中,privation 指從未擁有或缺乏,deprivation 指原本擁有卻被剝奪)。
Her songs spoke to millions, confronting privation and loss even as they radiated possibility and hope.
她的歌曲觸動了千百萬人的心弦,直面匱乏與失去,同時也散發著希望與憧憬。
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