hand-to-mouth
美 
英
- adj.僅夠糊口的；勉強維持生計的
- 網絡僅能糊口的；勉強糊口的；無隔宿之糧的
英漢雙解
1. | 僅夠糊口的；勉強維持生計的if you have ahand-to-mouth life, you spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food and do not have anything left |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
But 100 miles away in Lhasa, the Treasure of the Plateau company is transforming this hand-to-mouth livelihood into a serious business.
位于拉薩城外100公里處的西藏高原之寶牦牛乳業公司正在把這種自給自足的生產方式轉變成一樁嚴謹的生意。
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.
我們現造現銷，在手頭有的供貨上做文章，盡可能地使那些要求得到縮氨酸7號的人們滿意。
They are neither rich, inheriting enough to escape the struggle for existence , nor poor, living from hand to mouth, or season to season .
他們既不富有得繼承了足夠的財產以至于不用為生計而奔波，但也不貧困得僅能糊口度日或生活水平受季節波動影響。
That was how people began to use the idiom "living hand to mouth" to mean "living a poor life" .
這是人們如何開始使用成語“生活的手停口停”是指“過著窮困的生活”。
Lao Wu, a 40-year-old worker, got only a hand-to-mouth income, when he stayed in his hometown.
工人老吳，現年40歲，當年他在老家時，收入僅夠糊口。
We lived from hand to mouth, never knowing where the next meal was coming from.
我們日子過得緊緊巴巴的，從來是吃了上頓沒下頓。
In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.
在滑鐵盧，他過著研究生的緊緊巴巴的日子。
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.
當我還是孩子的時候，家里沒有很多錢。雖然我們僅能糊口，但我對父母并沒有懷恨在心。
Mary, don't think nothing of asking me for money. We're just living from hand to mouth. You are totally off base!
瑪麗，不要以為向我要錢算不了什么。我們的收入只夠勉強糊口。你真是太離譜了！
After he lost his job, he had to live hand to mouth for a couple of months.
他失業之后的幾個月里，只能節衣縮食、勉強糊口。
Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.
Hiyale太太則只能勉強糊口，依靠其所在貧民窟的慈善團體所派發的每天100盧比救濟金艱難度日。
E. g. : After my husband was made redundant, we had to live from hand to mouth until he found another job.
在我丈夫失業后還沒有找到另外工作之前，我們的生活很困苦，僅足糊口。
Mr. Johnson got very little pay, and the family lived from hand to mouth when he had no job.
約翰遜先生工資很低，當他失業時，一家人生活沒有保障。
Fred lost his job and is now living hand to mouth.
弗萊德丟了工作，現在僅夠維持生活。
She lived alone by herself, making a living from hand to mouth by picking things from rubbish heaps.
她獨自一人被她自己，做一個夠糊口的東西從垃圾通過挑選一堆。
For farmers, a hand-to-mouth existence is made worse by routine land seizures and orders to work without pay for the military.
強征土地和為軍方無償勞動令農民的生活難以為繼。
The under-funded fill-in teachers literally live hand to mouth and cannot afford basic living essentials.
代課老師薪水不足，吃了上頓沒下頓，很多生活的必需品也買不起。
I can't believe I'm down and out. I'm living hand to mouth and pinching pennies.
我真不敢相信自己一貧如洗，每天都只能勉強糊口。
Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.
批評家認為，政府的縮減政策是弄巧成拙，說明其普遍缺乏規劃。
Hand-to-mouth buying. Computer screen itself can only have three kinds of small light spots in different colors.
現買現賣！電腦螢幕本身就是只有產生三種不同顏色的小光點。
Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements.
技能欠缺的女性們被薪水微薄的工作和少得可憐的育兒補貼所困。
This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth .
跟富人相反的是那些僅能糊口度日的人。
So those living hand to mouth do indeed work for food, but unhappily just not nutritious food.
所以，那些人確實是為了食物而工作，只是不幸的是沒有營養的食物。
We had together consumed all my pistols, and now just rubbed on from hand to mouth.
我們一起把我的十五塊錢都用完了，現在我們僅僅能夠勉強糊口。
Eg. When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.
去年冬天沒找到工作，我不得不過著勉強糊口的生活。
chris is working at mcdonalds earning minimum wage . he is really living from hand to mouth.
克里斯在麥當勞工作賺得是最底新。他確實生活拮據。
Most people were living form hand to mouth. How could they?
大多數人都只能勉強糊口，他們怎么能攢下錢么？
These people live from hand to mouth on berries and roots .
這些人*漿果和根莖勉強度日。
They save no money , but no stocks, and live from hand to mouth.
他們不攢錢，沒有股票，勉強糊口。
Don't spend too much money. We are just living from hand to mouth.
不要花太多的錢了，我們現在僅夠糊口的。
That poor family has been living from hand to mouth for years.
那個窮困的家庭多少年來一直過著勉強糊口的貧困生活。
We've been living hand to mouth ever since I lost my job.
自從我沒了工作以后，我們的生活僅夠糊口。
Some even live from hand to mouth. They only have enough money for the most important things.
有些人甚至過著（僅能）糊口的生活，他們的錢只夠用來購買最重要的生活用品。
He got very little pay so he lived from hand to mouth.
他因薪水微薄所以僅能糊口。
For him, let him work as long as those who live from hand to mouth, he will be satisfied.
對于他來說，只要有份工作讓他糊口他也就心滿意足了。
They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.
他們屬于如今在美國很普通的那一種人：靠工資過著體面生活的的人。
They have always lived from hand to mouth.
他們一直過著勉強糊口的日子。
They lived from hand to mouth.
他們吃了上頓沒下頓。
They live from hand to mouth.
他們過著糊口的生活。
He lives from hand to mouth .
他僅能糊口度日。
