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

• They eke out a bare existence on his low salary.
  他们靠他微薄的薪金勉强口。
• We must try to eke out our water supply.
  我们必须尽量节约用水。
• If I were looking to put this classifier in production, I would make a much deeper examination of the inputs and other settings, trying to eke out every last bit of performance.
  如果要将此分类器投入生产，那么我会更加深入地研究输入和其他设置，以弥补性能的每个方面。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。