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
- 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。 - Garbage collection can be used to help eke out even more memory from your system and help improve the performance in workloads with a range of applications being used concurrently.
垃圾收集有助于从系统中挤出更多内存,有助于提高包含当前正在使用的应用程序的工作负载的性能。 - 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。 - Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
勉强过着极为贫困的生活。 - 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。 - Families struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
在这种艰难的环境中每家每户都在为维持生计而挣扎。 - 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? - We must try to eke out our water supply.
我们必须尽量节约用水。 - Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level I have borne great poverty myself.
勉强过着极为贫困的生活我本人已经为极度的贫困所拖累。 - 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。