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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • We must try to eke out our water supply.
    我们必须尽量节约用水。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Relax the muscles in your jaw, forehead, and lips to keep cool, then eke out a grin.
    放松下巴、前额和嘴唇的肌肉来保持沉着冷静、然后龇一龇牙。
  • 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 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。