eke out

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源自弃用词eke (添加,使...增加) + out

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eke out (第三人称单数简单现在时 ekes out,现在分词 eking out,一般过去时及过去分词 eked out)

  1. (及物) 补充
    The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden.
    老人靠卖花园里的蔬菜来让自己的养老金一些。
  2. (及物) 勉强维持艰难维持
    He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden.
    他靠卖花园里的蔬菜勉强度日。
    • 2001年10月23日,Roberta Smith,“Howard Finster, Folk Artist and Preacher, Dies at 84”,出自 The New York Times[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
      [] stylistically raw work known as outsider art that was frequently made by Southern blacks and whites who eked out livings as farmers or repairmen.
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    • 2011Kamin Mohammadi,“Displaced”,出自 The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran,London:Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN; paperback edition,London:Bloomsbury Publishing,2012, →ISBN, 页号197:
      But before too long, the rations that Parivash was ekeing out to feed them fell short and the tension that sprang from so many families piled in together overflowed.
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    • 2012年7月12日,Ben Perry,“Branson’s spaceship steals the spotlight at airshow”,出自 Yahoo! News[2], archived from the original on 26 April 2020:
      British tycoon Richard Branson stole the show here Wednesday, announcing that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space, as Airbus and Boeing eked out more plane orders.
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    • 2013,Meriel Fuller,章号1,出自 The Knight’s Fugitive Lady (Harlequin Historical; 370),Don Mills, Ont.:Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, 页号7:
      Her stomach growled at the prospect of eating roast rabbit for breakfast; the last time she had eaten meat had been three days ago. Since then, they had been ekeing out the last dusty contents of a sack of oats, watered down and cooked to make a sloppy gruel.
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