eking

英 [ˈiːkɪŋ] 美 [ˈiːkɪŋ]

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的现在分词

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。
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  1. He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day.
    他每天就靠几法郎勉强度日。
  2. I will graduate from eking University this July. I have majored in accounting.
    今年七月将从北京大学毕业，我主修的专业是会计学。
  3. Some have to hide eking out a living for decades.
    有些老华侨甚至躲藏了数十年，偷偷谋生。
  4. They had to have some way of eking out a reasonable existence. How could she turn round and say that, after all I've done for her.
    他们不得不辛辛苦苦地维持合理的生活。我为她辛辛苦苦，她怎麽竟说出那样的话来。
  5. Manufacturing is what you do if your only alternative is eking a living from the soil, or what lies beneath it.
    如果你除此之外的唯一选择就是依靠土地和土地之下的东西维持生计，在这种情况下，制造业才是你的选择。
  6. Ethiopia still has too many people eking out a living on too little land, depending on rains that can never be relied on.
    埃塞俄比亚仅有的一点耕地根本无法养活那么多的人口，完全依靠降雨的农田也因常年干旱而荒芜。
  7. He had been eking out a wretched existence, story-telling, or selling tobacco.
    他辛辛苦苦地凑合着生活，说书，或者卖烟草。
  8. I lived near a year upon that, spending very sparingly, and eking things out to the utmost.
    我就靠着这点钱，克勤克俭，七拼八凑地又过了几乎一年。
  9. Playing well and learning will make far more difference in the postseason than perhaps eking out a fluky win after playing poorly.
    发挥好和学习会比在发挥差的情况下取得一场侥幸的胜利更能在季后赛制造不同。
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