eke out

1. PHRASAL VERB 使…的供应持久；节约使用
   If you eke out something, you make your supply of it last as long as possible.
   1. Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
      很多工人手头的遣散费仅够维持10个星期左右。

1. Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
   很多工人手头的遣散费仅够维持10个星期左右。
2. To meet the new standards, companies are combining an array of existing technologies to eke out every possible bit of fuel savings from the 120-year-old internal combustion engine.
   为了达到新的燃油经济性标准，各大汽车公司目前正在整合一系列现有技术，以期在已有120年历史的内燃机的基础上节约使用任何可能的点滴燃油。
3. Eventually, the server will eke out a response, and only at that point does your GWT code do the wonderful thing you have planned.
   最后，服务器将竭力维持响应，并且只有在那一刻GWT代码才执行规划的奇妙操作。
4. Garbage collection can be used to help eke out even more memory from your system and help improve the performance in workloads with a range of applications being used concurrently.
   垃圾收集有助于从系统中挤出更多内存，有助于提高包含当前正在使用的应用程序的工作负载的性能。
5. If I were looking to put this classifier in production, I would make a much deeper examination of the inputs and other settings, trying to eke out every last bit of performance.
   如果要将此分类器投入生产，那么我会更加深入地研究输入和其他设置，以弥补性能的每个方面。
6. Eventually, his parents had to invest more money to help their only son eke out a meager living by running his own electronics store.
   最终，王建海的父母不得不再次掏腰包资助儿子开了家电器商店，勉强维持生计。
7. Even in China's richest city, huge numbers of people eke out a very modest existence.
   在这个中国最富裕的城市，还是有很多人勉强维生。
8. We must try to eke out our water supply.
   我们必须尽量节约用水。
9. Biotech companies insist they don't want to hamper farmers in developing countries who are struggling to eke out a living, nor do they want to take food out of the mouths of hungry people.
   生物技术公司坚持认为他们不想束缚发展中国家正在为生计而挣扎的农民，也不想把食物从饥饿的人们口中夺走。
10. They forged a sense of commonality in their collective effort to eke out a living and to mould a feeling of community and identity.
    但是，他们有一个共同的认识&努力求存和建立社区精神及认同感。
11. To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.
    为了让蜜蜂整年都有花采，全国2000名商业养蜂人中大约有一半每年春天都要搬家。
12. I set out one afternoon to go a-fishing to Fair Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables.
    有一个下午我穿过森林到美港去钧鱼，以弥补我的蔬菜的不足。
13. They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
    他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。
14. Migrants send home cash that helps eke out low village incomes.
    流动劳工往家里汇款，以弥补低下的农村收入。
15. In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.
    在旧中国，工人农民连生活都难以维持，更谈不上送子女上学了。
16. The crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water.
    船员们开始节约使用储量不多的淡水。
17. Other quants have looked at improving their trading techniques to squeeze extra performance from their models, while others are examining questions of timing in switching to eke out returns.
    有些量化基金在考虑改善其交易技术，从自身模型中挤出额外的业绩，而其它量化基金则在考察转向其它技术以维持回报的时机问题。
18. To eke out her meager pay, Betty turned to writing.
    贝蒂为了弥补微薄的工资收入，搞起写作来。
19. Families struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
    在这种艰难的环境中每家每户都在为维持生计而挣扎。
20. He asked about the present condition and I tried to eke out the little knowledge I had collected.
    他问起目前情况，我把我所收集的一些材料尽量告诉了他。
21. They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
    他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
22. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can serve to eke out evil.
    在某种情况下，教育和智力都是可以起济恶的作用的。
23. Relax the muscles in your jaw, forehead, and lips to keep cool, then eke out a grin.
    放松下巴、前额和嘴唇的肌肉来保持沉着冷静、然后龇一龇牙。
24. To regain competitiveness quickly, rather than eke out adjustment over a decade or more, wages need to fall.
    一国要想快速恢复竞争力、而非在十年甚至更长的调整期里勉强度日，工资水平就必须下降。
25. The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.
    他拿三篇小三重奏的三块钱凑合着应付到了《白鼠》的支票到达。
26. His defense during the final match was superb, allowing him to eke out a draw.
    决赛中的出色防守使他保住了平局。
27. Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level I have borne great poverty myself.
    勉强过着极为贫困的生活我本人已经为极度的贫困所拖累。
28. You will soon be faced with some tough choices: do you spend the weekend polishing up your maths skills to eke out another 3 per cent on the GMAT, or do you visit your fourth-choice school.
    你很快就将面对几个艰难抉择：是用周末提高数学能力来让GMAT考分增加3%，还是去参观你第四志愿的商学院？
29. Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
    勉强过着极为贫困的生活。

verb

1. obtain with difficulty
   1. He eked out some information from the archives

   Synonym:    squeeze out

2. make by laborious and precarious means
   1. He eked out a living as a painter

   Synonym:    squeeze out

3. supplement what is thought to be deficient
   1. He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
   2. Braque eked out his collages with charcoal

   Synonym:    fill out

4. live from day to day, as with some hardship
   1. He eked out his years in great poverty