eke out

英 [iːk aʊt]

美 [iːk aʊt]

使（某物）供应持久; 节约使用

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使…的供应持久；节约使用
  If youeke outsomething, you make your supply of it last as long as possible.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• obtain with difficulty
  1. He eked out some information from the archives
  Synonym:squeeze out
• make by laborious and precarious means
  1. He eked out a living as a painter
  Synonym:squeeze out
• supplement what is thought to be deficient
  1. He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
  2. Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
  Synonym:fill out
• live from day to day, as with some hardship
  1. He eked out his years in great poverty

双语例句

• Garbage collection can be used to help eke out even more memory from your system and help improve the performance in workloads with a range of applications being used concurrently.
  垃圾收集有助于从系统中挤出更多内存，有助于提高包含当前正在使用的应用程序的工作负载的性能。
• Biotech companies insist they don't want to hamper farmers in developing countries who are struggling to eke out a living, nor do they want to take food out of the mouths of hungry people.
  生物技术公司坚持认为他们不想束缚发展中国家正在为生计而挣扎的农民，也不想把食物从饥饿的人们口中夺走。
• The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.
  他拿三篇小三重奏的三块钱凑合着应付到了《白鼠》的支票到达。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Other quants have looked at improving their trading techniques to squeeze extra performance from their models, while others are examining questions of timing in switching to eke out returns.
  有些量化基金在考虑改善其交易技术，从自身模型中挤出额外的业绩，而其它量化基金则在考察转向其它技术以维持回报的时机问题。
• 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。
• Eventually, the server will eke out a response, and only at that point does your GWT code do the wonderful thing you have planned.
  最后，服务器将竭力维持响应，并且只有在那一刻GWT代码才执行规划的奇妙操作。
• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。