jiù shè huì / cháng gōng / qǐ zǎo tān hēi / de / gàn huó / què / zhǐ néng / miǎn qiǎng / hú kǒu

旧社会，长工起早贪黑地干活，却只能勉强糊口。

In the old society, farmhands worked from dawn to dusk but could barely make a living.