eked

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v.  补充；弥补…的不足；以节约使（供应等）持久；竭力增补；勉强维持；竭力维持；竭力维持; 增加；增大；放长; 草圈
eke的过去分词和过去式

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  1. PHRASE 勉强维持生计
    If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
    1. That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides ...
      那迫使农民们努力在陡峭的山坡上勉强维持生计。
    2. He ekes out a living with a market stall...
      他靠摆摊勉强糊口。
    3. He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day.
      他每天就靠几法郎勉强度日。
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双语例句

  1. In the old days he eked out a living as a street entertainer.
    过去他靠卖艺活命。
  2. What cycles could be eked out of ( the relatively) primitive systems of the day were precious commodities, grudgingly allocated to only the most vexing problems.
    当时，这些（相对）原始的系统非常珍贵，仅仅用来处理那些最复杂的问题。
  3. He eked out him salary by fetch and carry for the neighbourhood.
    他替邻近的人家打打杂，以弥补薪金的不足。
  4. Its incremental capital output ratio, the GDP eked from each extra unit of capital, has deteriorated, and will be further undermined by rising wages.
    中国的增量资本产出率（衡量每增加一单位资本能产生多少GDP）已经恶化，而且会因工资日益上涨进一步变糟。
  5. It was not an easy transplantation, but he and his family eked out enough of a living not only for their survival, but even for their basic contentment.
    这次迁居并不是轻而易举的，但他们全家含辛茹苦，终于不但维持了生计，而且还能满足生活中的基本享受。
  6. Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.
    布拉克用木炭来。
  7. Eked out an income by working two jobs.
    干双份工作来弥补收入的不足。
  8. Fred eked out a bare living by farming.
    弗雷德靠种田勉强度日。
  9. Fred eked out a bare living by farming. Many are just scrambling along in the world.
    弗雷德靠种田勉强度日。世界上许多人只是勉强度日而已。
  10. The Londoners have eked out breathing space ahead of those at the bottom, again using a collision with Stoke City as a means of releasing the pressure.
    伦敦人终于可以跳出降级区大口喘气，又一次将斯托克做为了解压的方式。
  11. He eked out his years in great poverty.
    在极度贫穷中他竭力维持着自己的日子。
  12. The French government was lifted yesterday by official data showing its economy had eked out growth of 0.2 per cent in the third quarter, against expectations of flat or negative growth.
    昨日公布的官方数据令法国政府感到振奋。第三季度法国经济增长率勉强达到0.2%，而市场预期则为持平或负增长。
  13. Over the past six months the United States has eked out annualised growth of merely 0.8%.
    在过去6个月，按年率计算，美国只增长了0.8%。
  14. He eked out a living as a painter.
    他作为一个画家竭力维持自己的生活。
  15. Its banks eked out a respectable living through the sensible business of lending money, its manufacturers through the old-fashioned practice of making things.
    亚洲的银行通过合理的贷款业务，维持着体面的生活。而亚洲的制造商从事着过时的、实在的生产工作。
  16. With a languid movement she eked out the thought that was in her.
    她做了一个懒洋洋的手势，以补充她所没有说出的想法。
  17. He eked out some information from the archives.
    他从档案室挤出一些情报。
  18. The measure squeezed through the parliament. Fred eked out a bare living by farming.
    议案在议会勉强通过。弗雷德靠种田勉强度日。
  19. He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons;
    他通过做家教来补充他的不高的工资；
  20. Their meagre supplies have to be eked out throughout the winter.
    他们那点匮乏的物资必须省着用以挨过冬天。
  21. She eked out her small income by washing clothes for other people.
    她替人洗衣以贴补微薄的收入。
  22. She eked out the stew to make another meal.
    她省出一些钝菜再做一顿饭。
  23. He eked out his wages by working evenings and Sundays.
    他在夜间和星期日工作以补贴工资的不足。
  24. Her iron-gray hair was eked out by a curled false fringe that was proudly brown and disdained to match the rest of her hair.
    她那铁灰色的头发中掺进了一抹惹眼的褐色假发，显得很不调和。
  25. For a while, she eked out enough to pay for her language course by cleaning lavatories in railway stations.
    一度她几乎付不起语言课程的钱，只能靠清扫铁路车站的厕所维持。
  26. After immigrating to Taiwan, Hakka people eked out a living by cultivating tea.
    移民来台湾之后，客家人依靠种茶辛苦度日。
  27. It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy. The painter mostly adopted realistic painting methods, but also used some folk and traditional Chinese painting techniques.
    因此，那些给他写文章的人必须借助于活跃的想象以弥补贫乏的事实，看来也就不足为奇了。画家在进行严谨的写实描绘中，借鉴了民间美术和传统工笔重彩的表现手法。
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