eking
v.
（靠节省用量）使…的供应持久( eke的现在分词 );
节约使用;
竭力维持生计;
勉强度日;
例句:
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He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day.
他每天就靠几法郎勉强度日。
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She is eking out her income by working in the evenings.
她在晚上工作以增加收入.
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They had to have some way of eking out a reasonable existence.
他们不得不辛辛苦苦地维持合理的生活.
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Lowell Weicker, eking out a victory by just 10, 000 votes.
来自CNN
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Greece has had trouble for years eking money out of its government land holdings.
来自WSJ
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Spending a little love at a time, eking it out here and there, on this man and that.
来自G. Greene