形容“生活艰难”的英语词组或单词

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形容“生活艰难”的英语词组或单词
形容一下一下这一段的:what kind of life does Stephen have?
every night for six weeks the wind hard risen to gale force as soon as the sun went down.Lying on his straw-filled bunk.Stephen heard it howl under the eaves of the bunkhouse,batter the tarpapered walls and make despondent,blowing sounds in the snow-weighted boughs of the spruces.He drew the dirty army blankets tighter under his chin.The sound alone was enough to make him shiver.

tough and miserable