from hand to mouth

单词from hand to mouth

基本解释

na.: 做一天吃一天；现挣现吃；仅可糊口
网络: 勉强糊口；仅能糊口；仅能糊口地

英汉解释

• 仅够糊囗

• 现挣现吃,自食其力

• 传下来

同义词

adv.from day to dayon the breadline

例句

• We lived from hand to mouth, juggling what supplies we had, trying to keep the multitudes who demanded Peptide 7 as happy as we could.

  我们现造现销，在手头有的供货上做文章，尽可能地使那些要求得到缩氨酸7号的人们满意。

• They are neither rich, inheriting enough to escape the struggle for existence , nor poor, living from hand to mouth, or season to season .

  他们既不富有得继承了足够的财产以至于不用为生计而奔波，但也不贫困得仅能糊口度日或生活水平受季节波动影响。

• We lived from hand to mouth, never knowing where the next meal was coming from.

  我们日子过得紧紧巴巴的，从来是吃了上顿没下顿。

• My family never had much money when I was a child. Although we always lived from hand to mouth, I had no hard feelings toward my parents.

  当我还是孩子的时候，家里没有很多钱。虽然我们仅能糊口，但我对父母并没有怀恨在心。

• Mary, don"t think nothing of asking me for money. We"re just living from hand to mouth. You are totally off base!

  玛丽，不要以为向我要钱算不了什么。我们的收入只够勉强糊口。你真是太离谱了！

• E. g. : After my husband was made redundant, we had to live from hand to mouth until he found another job.

  在我丈夫失业后还没有找到另外工作之前，我们的生活很困苦，仅足糊口。

• Mr. Johnson got very little pay, and the family lived from hand to mouth when he had no job.

  约翰逊先生工资很低，当他失业时，一家人生活没有保障。

• She lived alone by herself, making a living from hand to mouth by picking things from rubbish heaps.

  她独自一人被她自己，做一个够糊口的东西从垃圾通过挑选一堆。

• This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth .

  跟富人相反的是那些仅能糊口度日的人。

• We had together consumed all my pistols, and now just rubbed on from hand to mouth.

  我们一起把我的十五块钱都用完了，现在我们仅仅能够勉强糊口。