They are writing about scrabbly little social problems.

他们所写的都是些微不足道的社会问题。

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Every bit of land is tilled and farmed, even the scrabbly, rocky hillsides and the narrow strips of grass along the highway.

还有少量土地被耕种养殖，像火箭一样的山坡灌木丛生，沿着大路旁长着窄细的草。

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Outside I could see a half dozen wooden stilt homes surrounded by muddy patches and palm trees, a clothesline hung with shirts and sarongs, tree branch kindling stacked under a storage shed, a scrabbly vegetable garden where smoke plumed from a dying fire.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia