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.- 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。
- Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
英英释义
verb
- obtain with difficulty
- He eked out some information from the archives
- make by laborious and precarious means
- He eked out a living as a painter
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
- Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
- live from day to day, as with some hardship
- 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。