维持生计

What else I can do without the land to farm? However, it was something beyond his will. Buildings overbearingly surrounded by his land one by one, and he could hardly see any sunlight while standing on his land. Additionally, even working so hard for a year to plant paddle barely made a living.

但是由不得他，他的土地四周，一栋栋高楼霸气地围绕起来，到最后，他站在地里几乎已经见不到外界的阳光了，加上稻作一年的辛苦耕耘也快不能维持生计了。

Households have been further undermined by the negative wealth effect of falling asset prices, while cuts to already super-low interest rates, reducing earnings from savings on which the sizeable pensionable sector of the population remain dependent for income.

资产价格下跌造成的负面财富效应使得居民处境更加窘迫，同时已降至超低水平的利率让仍靠收入维持生计的大量退休人员的存款收益缩水。

Still, greed is part of human nature; we have to make a living, and often behave reprehensibly while doing so.

然而，贪婪是人之本性，我们必须维持生计，常常在谋生的时候犯下一些该受到指摘的事情。

After the dramatic increase in the number of war blinded persons, for whom no pension scheme had been provided and who were obliged to resume their employment, Stelling came up with the idea of using guide dogs.

第一次世界大战期间，许多士兵失去了视力，且伤员人数急剧增加。这些士兵无法享受怃恤金的补助，需要重新就业维持生计。这时，斯泰林医生突然有了训练导盲犬来帮助这些士兵的想法。

Except perhaps in some instances at the very first, they were not stinted for flocks and herds, the principal support of life in that age; in fact, there was no shortage of milk or meat,…Again, they were quite well off for clothes, bedding, shelter, or vessels, culinary and other.

除非在最初的某些场合，他们想要吝惜他们的牲畜，因为那是当时最主要的用来维持生计的东西，但实际上当时的奶和肉的供给还是够的，……还有，他们的衣服、被褥、房屋、器皿、烹饪用具都很短缺。

While being out of work and still rasing two children, the couple found it is unpossible to substain their life.

失业了，还要养活两个小孩，夫妻俩发现勉强维持生计是不可能的。

He doesn't do enough to earn one's keep.

他工作做得不多，难以维持生计。

Price is soaring, if it goes on like this, we shall not be able to keep the pot boiling.

物价直线上升，这样子下去，我们将难以维持生计。

Being out of work, and affording two kids, the couple realised it was impossible to scrape a living.

失业了，还要养活两个小孩，夫妻俩发现勉强维持生计是不可能的。

Dealers, as opposed to auctioneers, are still finding it hard to make a living and seldom buy FOR stock

与拍卖人相反，经销商仍然难以维持生计，很少收购商品作为库存。

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