维持生计

To make ends meet, Hesse took jobs working in bookstores.

为了维持生计，黑塞了就业工作在书店。

Even the employees in big city are hocking their Rolex watches and diamond necklaces to make ends meet in the economic downturn.

在经济低迷时期，即使是大城市的公司职员也纷纷典当劳力士手表、钻石项链来维持生计。

I was earning hardly enough money to keep body and soul together.

我几乎挣不到足够的钱来维持生计。

My wages are barely enough to keep body and soul together.

我的工资仅够维持生计。

John was unemployed. Most of the year he had made enough money to keep body and soul together.

约翰失业了，一年当中有大半日子几乎挣不到足够的钱来维持生计。

The form of landed property which we shall consider here is a specifically historical one a form transformed through the influence of capital and of the capitalist mode of production, either of feudal landownership, or of small-peasant agriculture as a means of livelihood, in which the possession of the land and the soil constitutes one of the prerequisites of production for the direct producer, and in which his ownership of land appears as the most advantageous condition for the prosperity of his mode of production.

我们所考察的土地所有权形式，是土地所有权的一个独特的历史形式，是封建的土地所有权或小农维持生计的农业(在后一场合，土地的占有是直接生产者的生产条件之一，而他对土地的所有权是他的生产方式的最有利的条件，即他的生产方式得以繁荣的条件)受资本和资本主义生产方式的影响而转化成的形式。

If they're able and willing to work, they should be able to find a job that pays a living wage.

如果他们有能力并愿意工作的话，那们他们就完全应该找到一份能维持生计的工作。

What can we do to make ends meet?

我们可以做些什么来维持生计？

At first, serf works and services are necessary to the lord's demesne. Second, lord can draw in part of the output of the serfs'manses. Thirdly, through labor, serf can get the part output of the manse to live on.

首先，农奴的存在使得自营地的经营有了劳动力保障；其次，领主凭借领主权有权从农奴份地收获中抽取部分物资；另外，农奴以劳动换取份地的部分用益权利以维持生计。

The acquisition of natural resources for industrial use remains the primary component of the world's economic system.

在世界经济体系中，基于自然资源运作的工业是其重要组成部分，而人类进行的例如打猎和捕鱼的活动或为维持生计或为休闲娱乐。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷