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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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 crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water.
    船员们开始节约使用储量不多的淡水。
  • We must try to eke out our water supply.
    我们必须尽量节约用水。
  • 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。
  • 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。