勉强维持生活

I am SaLuSa from Sirius and look at you struggling to exist, and eke out a living.

我是来自天狼星的SaLuSa，看着你们努力的生存，勉强的维持生活。

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。

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。

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。

Then, below the agitate of an old schoolmate, he borrowed brushstroke money to begin to do the wholesale business of leather shoes to relatives and friends again, continue to develop a stress for business with the most familiar always Internet, do a website, vend on the net sell leather shoes, although somewhat behead is obtained, loath keep the pot boiling, but deplorable day after day, always going down so also is not a method.

接着，在一位老同学的鼓动下，他又向亲友借了一笔钱开始做皮鞋的批发生意，继续以一贯最熟悉的互联网为业务发展重点，做个网站，在网上倒腾卖皮鞋，虽有所斩获，勉强维持生活，但可叹日复一日，总这样下去也不是个办法。

For me to do wrong that never did right, was no great Wonder: I had no Remedy but to go on; I was gotten into an Employment quite remote to my Genius, and directly contrary to the Life I delighted in, and for which I forsook my Father's House, and broke thro' all his good Advice; nay, I was coming into the very Middle Station, or upper Degree of low Life, which my Father advised me to before; and which if I resolved to go on with, I might as well ha' staid at Home, and never have fatigu'd my self in the World as I had done; and I used often to say to my self, I could ha' done this as well in England among my Friends, as ha' gone 5000 Miles off to do it among Strangers and Salvages in a Wilderness, and at such a Distance, as never to hear from any Part of the World that had the least Knowledge of me.

现在我已别无选择，只能勉强维持下去。现在的生计与我的天性和才能是完全不相称的，与我所向往的生活也大相径庭。为了我所向往的生活，我违抗父命，背井离乡。我现在经营种植园，也快过上我父亲一直劝我过的中产阶级生活了。但是，如果我真的想过中产阶级的生活，那我可以完全呆在家里，何必在世界上到处闯荡，劳苦自己呢？要过上中产阶级的生活，我完全可以留在英国，生活在亲朋好友中间，又何必千里迢迢，来到这举目无亲的荒山僻壤之地，与野蛮人为伍呢？在这儿，我远离尘世，谁也不知道我的音讯。

For me to do wrong that never did right, was no great Wonder: I had no Remedy but to go on; I was gotten into an Employment quite remote to my Genius, and directly country to the Life I delighted in, and for which I forsook my Father's House, and broke thro' all his good Advice; nay, I was coming into the very Middle Station, or upper Degree of low Life, which my Father advised me to before; and which if I resolved to go on with, I might as well ha' staid at Home, and never have fatigu'd my self in the World as I had done; and I used often to say to my self, I could ha' done this as well in England among my Friends, as ha' gone 5000 Miles off to do it among Strangers and Salvages in a Wilderness, and at such a Distance, as never to hear from any Part of the World that had the least Knowledge of me.

现在我已别无选择，只能勉强维持下去。现在的生计与我的天性和才能是完全不相称的，与我所向往的生活也大相径庭。为了我所向往的生活，我违抗父命，背井离乡。我现在经营种植园，也快过上我父亲一直劝我过的中产阶级生活了。但是，如果我真的想过中产阶级的生活，那我可以完全呆在家里，何必在世界上到处闯荡，劳苦自己呢？要过上中产阶级的生活，我完全可以留在英国，生活在亲朋好友中间，又何必千里迢迢，来到这举目无亲的荒山僻壤之地，与野蛮人为伍呢？在这儿，我远离尘世，谁也不知道我的音讯。

We know he earned a sparse living as a portrait photographer in Seattle for several years and continued to photograph the Puget Sound area.

我们只知道他有几年在西雅图靠肖像摄影勉强维持生活，并且继续不断地拍摄皮吉特海峡。

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。