live from day to day, as with some hardship;

"He eked out his years in great poverty"

obtain with difficulty;

"He eked out some information from the archives"

make by laborious and precarious means;

"He eked out a living as a painter"

supplement what is thought to be deficient;

"He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"

"Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"

but marginal sports’ officials must eke out their funds, because uk sport, which distributes public money, puts most cash where prospects are brightest.

不过，她们的经费会得到小众运动机构的补助，因为英国体育部门会对公共财产进行分配，将大部分用于最具前景的项目中去。

the government wants to speed up planning processes for areas like this, aiming to expand the housing stock and eke out more space for business development in the crowded south-east.

政府想加快像邱明顿格林村这样地区的计划进程，旨在增加住宅存量，并竭力为拥挤的东南部商业发展留出余地。

cars must eke out 39 miles (63km) per gallon, on average; light trucks must manage 30 miles.

每辆汽车每加侖平均应该行驶39里（63千米），轻型货车必须行驶30里。

to eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation「s 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring, migrating north to find more flowers for their bees.

以养蜂为全职工作的，大概一半全美2000多商业养蜂人每个春天都会迁移到南方去寻找更多的花给他们的蜜蜂。

amid regular power cuts, cyprus will be lucky to eke out any economic growth this year.

在定期的电力限制下，塞浦路斯还足够幸运地能勉强维持今年的经济增长。

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。

there are many humble dwellings scattered about the valley and most all of the inhabitants have to struggle in order to eke out a living.

有许多简朴的房舍散布在溪谷中，并且绝大多数的居民必须为挣得生活而奋斗。

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。

as with many other industries, the boom in finance in asia doesn’t apply to japan, where the economy will eke out growth of little more than 1% this year.

正如其他许多行业，亚洲金融业的繁荣并不符合日本的情况。今年，日本经济将勉强达到不超过1%的年增长率。

mr. loshipa and his family eke out living herding cows in what is essentially a desert.

loshipa先生和他的家庭在一片本来是沙漠的地方靠放牛努力维持生计。

however, you end up spending a lot of money to try to eke out acceptable performance.

但最终要花费大量金钱才能实现可以接受的性能。

「eke」 in old english meant 「something added」 and that is why we eke out our existence.

古英语中的eke意为「加上去的某物」，于是我们现在就有了eke outourexistence（勉强维生）这个词组。

granted, many performance refactorings can take nearly as long as writing the code the first time, only to eke out a marginal improvement.

养成一些好的习惯，来帮助你的代码运行更快并减少校对调整的必要，并且了解清楚那些选择能够帮助你提高运行性能。

methods by observing and communicating with the patients, to eke out their knowledge of this disease and make them to know how to deal with such situation.

方法通过观察和交谈，增进患者对本病相关知识的了解以及知道怎样应对这种情形。

does jeanette have extensive keyboard accelerators or a great collection of environment variables to eke out special features from utilities?

jeanette 是否有很多加速键或者大量的环境变量集合，以便从实用工具方面补充一些特殊的特性呢？

systematically studying on the choice of instruments in policy implementation will eke out the gap in「policy implementation research」.

对政策执行中工具选择的系统研究将会填补「执行研究」的一个空白领域。

we must try to eke out our water supply.

我们必须尽量节约用水。

but he harbors doubts about stocks」 ability to eke out gains past 2010.

但他对股市在2010年后继续维持上涨的能力持怀疑态度。

from generation to generation, they tilled land for landlord only to eke out a bare subsistence. people who associated with them as friends were likewise honest impoverished peasants.

世代为地主耕种，家境是贫苦的，和我们来往的朋友也都是老老实实的贫苦农民。

meanwhile, factory production in japan has continued to eke out growth since march, though the pace of expansion slowed sharply through the summer.

同时，日本自三月起工业产出继续维持增长，虽然夏季增速大幅下降。

it is this specialisation that enables each to eke out a living in this competitive environment.

正是这些特殊的武器使得它们在竞争激烈的环境中生存了下来。

it would often be better, she thinks, not to try so hard to eke out a few more hours or weeks but to concentrate on quality of life.

她认为很多情况下，竭尽全力使病人多活区区几小时或几周不如将精力花在提高他们的生活质量上。

tweaking code to eke out cycles can be valuable -- but don「t attempt any optimization without profiling first.

通过代码优化弥补周期的不足是很有价值的 ——但是在结构分析之前不要尝试进行任何优化。

still, she」d rather eke out a living doing what she likes than living comfortably from a job that's unrewarding.

但是，她宁愿做自己喜欢的工作，勉强度日，也不愿做一份没有精神回报的工作，只为能舒服地生活。