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
- Families struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
在这种艰难的环境中每家每户都在为维持生计而挣扎。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - They forged a sense of commonality in their collective effort to eke out a living and to mould a feeling of community and identity.
但是,他们有一个共同的认识&努力求存和建立社区精神及认同感。 - 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。 - 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。 - You will soon be faced with some tough choices: do you spend the weekend polishing up your maths skills to eke out another 3 per cent on the GMAT, or do you visit your fourth-choice school.
你很快就将面对几个艰难抉择:是用周末提高数学能力来让GMAT考分增加3%,还是去参观你第四志愿的商学院? - 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。 - 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。