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

• Migrants send home cash that helps eke out low village incomes.
  流动劳工往家里汇款，以弥补低下的农村收入。
• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
• Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
  勉强过着极为贫困的生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。