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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.

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They eke out victories now, or inexplicably stumble like they did Tuesday night against 5-16 Sacramento.

要不然,他们现在只能是勉强维持胜利, 或者像周二晚上输给5胜16负的国王那样遭遇莫名其妙失利.

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To meet the new standards, companies are combining an array of existing technologies to eke out every possible bit of fuel savings from the 120-year-old internal combustion engine.

为了达到新的燃油经济性标准，各大汽车公司目前正在整合一系列现有技术，以期在已有120年历史的内燃机的基础上节约使用任何可能的点滴燃油。

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Does Jeanette have extensive keyboard accelerators or a great collection of environment variables to eke out special features from utilities?

Jeanette是否有很多加速键或者大量的环境变量集合，以便从实用工具方面补充一些特殊的特性呢？

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To my surprise I eke out a small sound.

出乎我意料之外的是,我只能勉强吹出细小的声音.

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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。

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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.

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He works hard all day long every day to eke out a living for his family.

他整日穷忙,全都是为了这个家呀.

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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.

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They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.

他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强糊口.

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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.

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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。

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We are no more inclined to eke out our sentimental sorrows cherish our bodily pains.

我们不愿意增加我们多愁善感的悲哀,正如我们不愿意保留我们身体上的疼痛一样.

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They had to eke out a livinga tiny income.

他们不得不靠微薄收入勉强度日.

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They eke out a precarious existence.

他们勉强维持着朝不保夕的生活。

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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。

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They eke out a bare existence ( ie They scarcely manage ) on his low salary.

他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口.

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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。

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Eke out a living at an extremely low economic level.

勉强过着极为贫困的生活。

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We must try to eke out our water supply.

我们必须尽量节约用水.

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And Vietnam will finally eke out a current account surplus for last year the first time since 2005.

越南在去年也终于实现经常账户盈余，这是2005年来首次。

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But he harbors doubts about stocks' ability to eke out gains past 2010.

但他对股市在2010年后继续维持上涨的能力持怀疑态度。

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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.

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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.

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You will soon be faced with some tough choices: do you spend the weekend polishing up your maths skills to eke out another 3 per cent on the GMAT, or do you visit your fourth-choice school.

你很快就将面对几个艰难抉择：是用周末提高数学能力来让GMAT考分增加3%，还是去参观你第四志愿的商学院？

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To regain competitiveness quickly, rather than eke out adjustment over a decade or more, wages need to fall.

一国要想快速恢复竞争力、而非在十年甚至更长的调整期里勉强度日，工资水平就必须下降。

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He toiled unsuccessfully on craigslist, the local classifieds service, trying to eke out some income from the island when not in use for stays with family and friends.

他曾在当地分类广告网站Craigslist上打广告，希望房子空置时（自己家人与朋友不在此居住时）能对外出租，但却以失败告终。

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In old China workers and peasants could hardly eke out a living, let alone send their children to school.

在旧中国，工人农民连生活都难以维持，更谈不上送子女上学了。

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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.

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Though the Dutch team did eke out a win, it was not easy.

荷兰队的夺冠之路非常艰辛。

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