eke out
英 [iːk aʊt]
美 [iːk aʊt]
使（某物）供应持久; 节约使用
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 使…的供应持久；节约使用
If youeke outsomething, you make your supply of it last as long as possible.- 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。
- Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
英英释义
verb
- obtain with difficulty
- He eked out some information from the archives
- make by laborious and precarious means
- He eked out a living as a painter
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
- Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
- live from day to day, as with some hardship
- He eked out his years in great poverty
双语例句
- We must try to eke out our water supply.
我们必须尽量节约用水。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。