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

• 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。
• 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。
• Other quants have looked at improving their trading techniques to squeeze extra performance from their models, while others are examining questions of timing in switching to eke out returns.
  有些量化基金在考虑改善其交易技术，从自身模型中挤出额外的业绩，而其它量化基金则在考察转向其它技术以维持回报的时机问题。
• In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.
  在旧中国，工人农民连生活都难以维持，更谈不上送子女上学了。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
  勉强过着极为贫困的生活。
• 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。
• 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。