ekes

英 [iːks] 美 [iːks]

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的第三人称单数



柯林斯词典

  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。

双语例句

  1. He ekes out a living with a market stall
    他靠摆摊勉强糊口。
  2. Until, one day, an obscure conjurer who ekes out a living as headteacher of a remote public school found international stardom when a former pupil made it big in Hollywood.
    直到有一天,一名他的前学生让这位担任偏远公立学校校长的隐居巫师成为了好莱坞赫赫有名的国际巨星。
  3. The yeast Candida albicans ekes out a quiet living in our gut.
    假丝酵母在我们内脏里竭力维持平稳的生活。
  4. It expects high income country economies to contract by0.1 percent next year while the world economy ekes out only one percent growth.
    世行预测高收入国家的经济明年将收缩0.1%,而世界经济增速勉强能达到1%。
  5. This year book ekes out souvenir of my life in the university.
    这本年鉴帮助我追忆大学生活。
  6. I will no longer chew the cud of misfortune that Fate ekes out to us.
    我将不再反复地思考命运给我们的不幸。