eking
v. 节约使用,节省以延长……的使用;竭力维持生计,勉强度日(eke 的现在分词)
例句
He was eking out an existence on a few dollars a day.
他靠一天几美元勉强维持着生计。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
The miners had survived by eking out two days' rations.
经过两天的定量补给,矿工们幸存了下来。
Ethiopia still has too many people eking out a living on too little land, depending on rains that can never be relied on.
埃塞俄比亚仅有的一点耕地根本无法养活那么多的人口,完全依靠降雨的农田也因常年干旱而荒芜。