be strewn with something

to scatter things around a large area

The street was strewn with broken glass.

The landscape around it was strewn with boulders, which underscored the barrenness of this high plateau.

boulder - a large rounded piece of rock

hold out

to continue to successfully defend a place that is being attacked

The revels held out for another night but then fresh forces arrived.

For a moment I was speechless as I thought about how long this tiny scrawny tree had held out up here.

scrawny - a scrawny person or animal looks very thin and weak (= skinny)

eke out a living/existence

to manage to live with very little money or food

They eke out a miserable existence in a cardboard shacks.

What attracts them here is the great age of the scrawny little-tossed tree that ekes out its existence hight up on a mountain ridge.

at the end of the day

used to give your final opinion after considering all the possibilities (=결국은, 결론적으로)

At the end of the day, it’s his decision.

All over the world, activists like Sebastian, who fight alone, achieve much, and yet at the end of the day are still frustrated.