形容“生活艰难”的英语词组或单词

题目

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.

答案

tough and miserable