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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
• I set out one afternoon to go a-fishing to Fair Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables.
  有一个下午我穿过森林到美港去钧鱼，以弥补我的蔬菜的不足。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。