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。
• Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
  勉强过着极为贫困的生活。
• 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。
• They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
  他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We must try to eke out our water supply.
  我们必须尽量节约用水。
• 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。