vt.(靠节省用量)使…的供应持久;节约使用;竭力维持生计;勉强度日;
例句:
Please try to eke the money out till the end or the year.
请把钱俭省点儿用,尽可能维持到年底.
And this faire couple eke to shroud themselves were fain.
这漂亮的一对也欣然地隐蔽自己.
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。