The life of a tenant farmer’s family was of course hard, but we somehow managed to scrape along because mother was a clever and able woman.

佃农家庭的生活自然是很苦的。 可是由于母亲的聪明能干，却很舒服。

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I knew how hard Dad worked to scrape together enough money for my accordion and lessons.

我知道，为了我的手风琴和琴课，父亲是多么辛苦工作才勉强凑够钱的。

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Thousands of excited teenyboppers scrape together their hard-earned cash to get there.

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North Korea's bad behaviour, including its 1998 missile test, has made it hard to keep the reactor project going and to scrape together the funds for the fuel-oil deliveries that are promised until the reactors come on stream.

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