eke out

eke out读音音标

英 [i:k aut]

美 [ik aʊt]

eke out意思解释

v.

弥补…的不足，竭力维持；

英英释义

v.

supplement what is thought to be deficient

同义词：fill out

live from day to day, as with some hardship

make by laborious and precarious means

同义词：squeeze out

obtain with difficulty

同义词：squeeze out

双语例句

He eked out a living as a painter.他作为一个画家竭力维持自己的生活。Still in the red, the divorced mother ekes out a living by taking on several moonlighting.那失婚母亲负债累累，只得身兼多职，竭力维持生计。As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches,they cannot hold out long.至于模棱两可，含糊其辞的话，那是不能持久的。