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
- 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? - To meet the new standards, companies are combining an array of existing technologies to eke out every possible bit of fuel savings from the 120-year-old internal combustion engine.
为了达到新的燃油经济性标准,各大汽车公司目前正在整合一系列现有技术,以期在已有120年历史的内燃机的基础上节约使用任何可能的点滴燃油。 - 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。 - 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。 - His defense during the final match was superb, allowing him to eke out a draw.
决赛中的出色防守使他保住了平局。 - They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 - 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。 - The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.
他拿三篇小三重奏的三块钱凑合着应付到了《白鼠》的支票到达。 - Even in China's richest city, huge numbers of people eke out a very modest existence.
在这个中国最富裕的城市,还是有很多人勉强维生。 - 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。