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 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
  勉强过着极为贫困的生活。