维持生计

Writing ability; eked out a ''.

写作能力很低；勉强维持生计

In the 1850s many Chinese settled about here; it was a little Chinatown that gave a living to the many miners who, having worked out their indentures to the Cantonese gold speculators on the Victorian diggings, elected to remain in Australia.

在为那些广东籍黄金投机商工作的契约满了之后，许多矿工选择定居澳大利亚，而正是在小小的中国城使他们得以维持生计。

What she stumbled upon was not only a new life but a new way to make a living.

她突然发现的不是她的崭新的人生而是维持生计的方法。

She has been dead a year, and you know, Fernand, I have subsisted almost entirely on public charity. Sometimes you pretend I am useful to you, and that is an excuse to share with me the produce of your fishing, and I accept it, Fernand, because you are the son of my father's brother, because we were brought up together, and still more because it would give you so much pain if I refuse.

弗尔南多，你也知道我母亲去世已一年多了，我几乎完全靠着大伙儿救济才得以维持生计，你有时装着要我帮你的忙，好借此让我分享你捕鱼得来的收获，我接受了，弗尔南多，因为你是我的表兄，我们从小一起长大的，更因为，假如我拒绝，会伤了你的心。

For two years he was a lowly peddler, hauling some 180 pounds of sundries door-to-door to eke out a marginal living. When a married sister in San Francisco offered to pay his way West in 1850, he jumped at the opportunity, taking with him bolts of canvas he hoped to sell for tenting.

李维作了两年寒酸的小贩，拉着180来磅的杂货挨家挨户地叫卖，勉强维持生计。1850年，他的一个嫁到旧金山的姐姐愿意为他提供西行的路费，他急忙抓住这一机会，带着几卷帆布走了，打算卖给人家做帐篷用。

It would also explain why ticket touts still make a living .

它也是票贩子之所以仍能维持生计的原因所在。

There was one town where they even made me a guest of honor of the town council and paid my bill at the inn; in another, perhaps by way of compensation, they threw me in jail by order of the mayor (who was a drunken, tongue-tied albino), and kept me there for a day and a night, locked in a stinking cellar and nourished on garlic soup and a couple of mouthfuls of wine dregs.

有个镇把我当成镇议会的主宾，给我支付旅馆费用，可能是作为补偿，根据市长的命令，他们把我扔进监狱并关了我一天一夜，锁进一个发臭的地窖，给我一份大蒜汤和两口酒糟维持生计。

Former Democratic President Bill Clinton praised the stimulus package, saying it puts money in the hands of people who need it to survive - through unemployment benefits, food stamps, and tax cuts.

前总统克林顿则赞扬说，这个经济刺激法案通过失业救济、食品券和减税，把钱交给了需要这些钱来维持生计的人。

Hand labor to machine farming, and from subsistence to commercial

农业的革命——和战后制造业的革命并驾齐驱——使手工业劳动变为机械耕作，从维持生计的农业变成为商业化的农业。

The ill-paid workers ought to save sufficient means in their early days to support themselves in the decline of life.

误：入不敷出的劳动者应当及早积攒足够的资财以便在晚年维持生计。III。词义的褒贬

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