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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
• Biotech companies insist they don't want to hamper farmers in developing countries who are struggling to eke out a living, nor do they want to take food out of the mouths of hungry people.
  生物技术公司坚持认为他们不想束缚发展中国家正在为生计而挣扎的农民，也不想把食物从饥饿的人们口中夺走。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
  勉强过着极为贫困的生活。