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
- 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 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。 - To regain competitiveness quickly, rather than eke out adjustment over a decade or more, wages need to fall.
一国要想快速恢复竞争力、而非在十年甚至更长的调整期里勉强度日,工资水平就必须下降。 - The crew started to eke out there scanty supply of fresh water.
船员们开始节约使用储量不多的淡水。 - Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.
勉强过着极为贫困的生活。 - 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。 - Other quants have looked at improving their trading techniques to squeeze extra performance from their models, while others are examining questions of timing in switching to eke out returns.
有些量化基金在考虑改善其交易技术,从自身模型中挤出额外的业绩,而其它量化基金则在考察转向其它技术以维持回报的时机问题。 - 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。 - 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。 - We must try to eke out our water supply.
我们必须尽量节约用水。