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
- 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。 - 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。 - Biotech companies insist they don't want to hamper farmers in developing countries who are struggling to eke out a living, nor do they want to take food out of the mouths of hungry people.
生物技术公司坚持认为他们不想束缚发展中国家正在为生计而挣扎的农民,也不想把食物从饥饿的人们口中夺走。 - 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。 - Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level I have borne great poverty myself.
勉强过着极为贫困的生活我本人已经为极度的贫困所拖累。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Garbage collection can be used to help eke out even more memory from your system and help improve the performance in workloads with a range of applications being used concurrently.
垃圾收集有助于从系统中挤出更多内存,有助于提高包含当前正在使用的应用程序的工作负载的性能。