eke [ik]

例句:

• Eke in foote and hand A grievous gout tormented him full sore.
  来自Spenser
• 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.
  
• Bookshops...eke out their turnover with stationery.
  来自A. Blond
• 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。
  
• That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides .
  那迫使农民们努力在陡峭的山坡上勉强维持生计。
  
• They struggled for years to eke out a living from the rocky soil.
  来自NEWYORKER