eke

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Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
很多工人手頭的遣散費僅夠維持10個星期左右。
That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides .
那迫使辳民們努力在陡峭的山坡上勉強維持生計。
They eke out a bare existence ( ie They scarcely manage ) on his low salary.
他們靠他微薄的薪金勉強口.
Many workers can only eke out their redundancy money for about 10 weeks.
很多工人手頭的遣散費僅夠維持10個星期左右。
That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides .
那迫使辳民們努力在陡峭的山坡上勉強維持生計。

If you eke a living or eke out an existence, you manage to survive with very little money.