hand-to-mouth

英[ˈhændtəˈmaʊθ]
美[ˈhændtəˈmaʊθ]

基本释义

adj.
无隔宿之粮的,仅能糊口的

实用例句

The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits.

收入最低者过着只能勉强糊口的日子,没有医疗补助或其他福利。

They live from hand to mouth.

他们过着糊口的生活.

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They live respectably from hand to mouth.

他们过着可尊敬的,自食其力的生活.

辞典例句

In the old days they lived from hand to mouth.

在旧社会他生活拮据.

辞典例句

These Indians live from hand to mouth berries, nuts, and roots.

这些印第安人靠浆果 、 坚果和树根为生.

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They lived form hand to mouth.

他们的生活仅能糊口.

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When I had no job last winter, I to live from hand to mouth.

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.

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They never saved any money, but from hand to mouth.

他们从来没有节余下钱, 而挣了钱仅够买吃的.

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Chuck and Alice are living from hand to mouth since Chuck lost his job.

自从杰克失业后,查克和爱丽丝过着拮据的生活.

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Our family didn't have much , so we lived from hand to mouth.

我家并不富裕, 生活只是挣一点吃一点.

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They always lived from hand to mouth.

他们一直过着勉强糊口的日子.

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All too often, businesses are undercapitalized and forced to survive hand to mouth.

企业十有八九资金不足,被迫勉强维持着生存.

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These people live from hand to mouth on berries and roots.

这些人靠浆果和根茎勉强度日.

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During the Depression, formerly rich people were bankrupted and found themselves living from hand to mouth.

在大萧条时期, 以前富裕的人都破产了,他们都过着勉强糊口的日子.

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Nine tenths of the population in rural areas live from hand to mouth.

农村地区90%的人仅够糊口.

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The poet was starving and lived from hand to mouth.

诗人忍饥换俄,现挣现吃.

辞典例句

I have been from hand to mouth.

我一直都过着勉强糊口的生活.

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When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.

去年冬天没找到工作, 我不得不过着勉强糊口的生活.

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He lived from hand to mouth because of his incapacity to work.

由于无力工作,他勉强对付着过日子.

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During the famine the people lived from hand to mouth.

饥荒时人们勉强度日.

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The poor man lived from hand to mouth.

那个穷人的生活只够糊口.

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We live from hand to mouth because my father is an accountant with a low salary.

我们过着仅能糊口的生活,因为我父亲只是个薪水很低的会计员.

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This rich person is the opposite of a person who head hand to mouth.

在一个富人的对立面就是一个贫苦的人.

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We always lived from hand to mouth in those days.

那时候,我们总是过着朝不保夕的生活.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

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

和这种富裕的人相反的有另一种人.

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We're just living from hand to mouth. You are totally off base!

我们的收入只够勉强糊口. 你真是太离谱了!

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英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. providing only bare essentials;

    "a hand-to-mouth existence"

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