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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - If I were looking to put this classifier in production, I would make a much deeper examination of the inputs and other settings, trying to eke out every last bit of performance.
如果要将此分类器投入生产,那么我会更加深入地研究输入和其他设置,以弥补性能的每个方面。 - 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。 - 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。 - He asked about the present condition and I tried to eke out the little knowledge I had collected.
他问起目前情况,我把我所收集的一些材料尽量告诉了他。 - 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。