You can feel the tough work of it in that hard, frozen soil.

你能想象到在冰冷坚硬的土地上，这个工作是多么的艰难。

He knelt on the hard soil.

他跪在坚硬的土地上。

As it feeds, it effectively ploughs this hard soil, allowing air and water in, vital for the plants that live here.

当它搜寻食物的时候，会把土刨得很松软，使得空气和水容易渗入土壤，这对于生活在此处的植物来说，是极为重要的。

But the proprietor appeared already to have relinquished, as hopeless, the effort to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the native English taste for ornamental gardening.

但业主似乎已经放弃了， 因为无望，在大西洋的这一边，在坚硬的土壤中， 在为生存而激烈斗争的情况下， 英国本土对观赏园艺的品味永存。