勉强维持

He can barely feed and clothe his family.

我们的钱只能勉强维持到周末。

They eke out a precarious existence(= they have hardly enough money to live on).

他们勉强维持着朝不保夕的生活。

They are living from hand to mouth. They can not afford to buy an expensive car.

他们的收入只能够勉强维持生活，买不起这么昂贵的车。

His father did not have a regular job so they lived from hand to mouth .

他的父亲没有正式工作，因此生活只能勉强维持。

But now, that candidate is struggling to stay in the race as another has made a stunning push to become the new front-runner.

但是现在，那个候选者只能勉强维持在竟争名单里，因为另一位用华丽的一击成为了新的领跑者。

For example, in Beijing, a taxi driver's monthly income, after deduction of licence fee, oil and other costs, stands at around 3,000 yuan, barely enough for a family in the expensive capital.

例如北京，一名出租车司机的月收入，除开牌照费、油钱和其他费用以后，大约还剩下3000块，仅够勉强维持一家人在消费高昂的首都的生活。

A migrant doing macrame as her children play.

即使在中国最富裕的城市，还有大量的人在勉强维持基本的生存状态。

He works 50 hours a week and still only earns enough to scrape by.

他每周工作50小时，仍然只能勉强维持生活。

I can scrape by on a reduced income for a short time, but not for ever.

收入减少我可以在短期内勉强维持，可是不能长此下去。

In many countries, there is simply no money available for research of any kind as they are merely subsistent countries that even lack adequate funding to properly feed their own populations.

在许多国家，根本弄不到任何资金来进行任何性质的研究，因为这些国家只是些勉强维持生存的国家，甚至还缺乏充足的资金来使其人口得以果腹。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。