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.
  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。

英英释义

verb

• obtain with difficulty
  1. He eked out some information from the archives
  Synonym:squeeze out
• make by laborious and precarious means
  1. He eked out a living as a painter
  Synonym:squeeze out
• 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
• live from day to day, as with some hardship
  1. He eked out his years in great poverty

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？