eking是什么意思？

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

• 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.
• She is eking out her income by working in the evenings. 她在晚上工作以增加收入.
• He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day. 他每天就靠几法郎勉强度日。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• PHRASE
  勉强维持生计
  If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.
  例句
  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。 He ekes out a living with a market stall... 他靠摆摊勉强糊口。