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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• obtain with difficulty
  1. He eked out some information from the archives
  Synonym:squeeze out
• make by laborious and precarious means
  1. He eked out a living as a painter
  Synonym:squeeze out
• supplement what is thought to be deficient
  1. He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
  2. Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
  Synonym:fill out
• live from day to day, as with some hardship
  1. 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。
• 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。
• He asked about the present condition and I tried to eke out the little knowledge I had collected.
  他问起目前情况，我把我所收集的一些材料尽量告诉了他。
• 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。
• 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。
• We must try to eke out our water supply.
  我们必须尽量节约用水。
• His defense during the final match was superb, allowing him to eke out a draw.
  决赛中的出色防守使他保住了平局。
• 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 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。
• 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。