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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。