eke out

英语

词源

源自弃用词eke (“添加，使...增加”) + out。

动词

eke out (第三人称单数简单现在时 ekes out，现在分词 eking out，一般过去时及过去分词 eked out)

1. (及物) 补充

   The old man eked out his pension by selling vegetables from his garden.

   老人靠卖花园里的蔬菜来让自己的养老金多一些。

   • 1805 July, “Art. XIV. History of Great Britain. By William Belsham. Vol. XI. and XII. London, 1805. 8vo. [book review]”, 出自 The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, 卷 VI, 期 XII, Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison, […], for Archibald Constable & Co. […], and Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, […], →OCLC，页号 428:

     [T]he author [William Belsham] ekes out his volume with a great many extraneous details, which relate to a ſubſequent period; [...] The whole work is ſingularly confuſed and deſultory: and, indeed, the plan which the author adopts, is altogether incompatible with that unity and coherence which is eſſential to hiſtory.

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2. (及物) 勉强维持，艰难维持

   He eked out a living selling vegetables from the garden.

   他靠卖花园里的蔬菜勉强度日。

   • 2001 10月 23, Roberta Smith, “Howard Finster, Folk Artist and Preacher, Dies at 84”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     […] stylistically raw work known as outsider art that was frequently made by Southern blacks and whites who eked out livings as farmers or repairmen.

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   • 2011, Kamin Mohammadi, “Displaced”, 出自 The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN; paperback版, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, →ISBN，页号 197:

     But before too long, the rations that Parivash was ekeing out to feed them fell short and the tension that sprang from so many families piled in together overflowed.

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   • 2012 7月 12, Ben Perry, “Branson’s spaceship steals the spotlight at airshow”, 出自 Yahoo! News‎^[2]，于26 April 2020归档自原页面:

     British tycoon Richard Branson stole the show here Wednesday, announcing that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space, as Airbus and Boeing eked out more plane orders.

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   • 2013, Meriel Fuller, 章号 1, 出自 The Knight’s Fugitive Lady (Harlequin Historical; 370), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN，页号 7:

     Her stomach growled at the prospect of eating roast rabbit for breakfast; the last time she had eaten meat had been three days ago. Since then, they had been ekeing out the last dusty contents of a sack of oats, watered down and cooked to make a sloppy gruel.

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