hand-to-mouth

hand-to-mouth

美 　英

• adj.仅够糊口的；勉强维持生计的
• 网络仅能糊口的；勉强糊口的；无隔宿之粮的

英汉双解

英汉解释

adj.	1. 过一天算一天的;勉强糊口的

英英解释

adj.	1. with just enough money or food to live on

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.

位于拉萨城外100公里处的西藏高原之宝牦牛乳业公司正在把这种自给自足的生产方式转变成一桩严谨的生意。

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。

That was how people began to use the idiom "living hand to mouth" to mean "living a poor life" .

这是人们如何开始使用成语“生活的手停口停”是指“过着穷困的生活”。

Lao Wu, a 40-year-old worker, got only a hand-to-mouth income, when he stayed in his hometown.

工人老吴，现年40岁，当年他在老家时，收入仅够糊口。

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。

In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.

在滑铁卢，他过着研究生的紧紧巴巴的日子。

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.

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！

After he lost his job, he had to live hand to mouth for a couple of months.

他失业之后的几个月里，只能节衣缩食、勉强糊口。

Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.

Hiyale太太则只能勉强糊口，依靠其所在贫民窟的慈善团体所派发的每天100卢比救济金艰难度日。

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。

Fred lost his job and is now living hand to mouth.

弗莱德丢了工作，现在仅够维持生活。

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。

For farmers, a hand-to-mouth existence is made worse by routine land seizures and orders to work without pay for the military.

强征土地和为军方无偿劳动令农民的生活难以为继。

The under-funded fill-in teachers literally live hand to mouth and cannot afford basic living essentials.

代课老师薪水不足，吃了上顿没下顿，很多生活的必需品也买不起。

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贫如洗，每天都只能勉强糊口。

Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.

批评家认为，政府的缩减政策是弄巧成拙，说明其普遍缺乏规划。

Hand-to-mouth buying. Computer screen itself can only have three kinds of small light spots in different colors.

现买现卖！电脑萤幕本身就是只有产生三种不同颜色的小光点。

Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements.

技能欠缺的女性们被薪水微薄的工作和少得可怜的育儿补贴所困。

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

跟富人相反的是那些仅能糊口度日的人。

So those living hand to mouth do indeed work for food, but unhappily just not nutritious food.

所以，那些人确实是为了食物而工作，只是不幸的是没有营养的食物。

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。

Eg. 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。

chris is working at mcdonalds earning minimum wage . he is really living from hand to mouth.

克里斯在麦当劳工作赚得是最底新。他确实生活拮据。

Most people were living form hand to mouth. How could they?

大多数人都只能勉强糊口，他们怎么能攒下钱么？

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

这些人*浆果和根茎勉强度日。

They save no money , but no stocks, and live from hand to mouth.

他们不攒钱，没有股票，勉强糊口。

Don't spend too much money. We are just living from hand to mouth.

不要花太多的钱了，我们现在仅够糊口的。

That poor family has been living from hand to mouth for years.

那个穷困的家庭多少年来一直过着勉强糊口的贫困生活。

We've been living hand to mouth ever since I lost my job.

自从我没了工作以后，我们的生活仅够糊口。

Some even live from hand to mouth. They only have enough money for the most important things.

有些人甚至过着（仅能）糊口的生活，他们的钱只够用来购买最重要的生活用品。

He got very little pay so he lived from hand to mouth.

他因薪水微薄所以仅能糊口。

For him, let him work as long as those who live from hand to mouth, he will be satisfied.

对于他来说，只要有份工作让他糊口他也就心满意足了。

They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.

他们属于如今在美国很普通的那一种人：靠工资过着体面生活的的人。

They have always lived from hand to mouth.

他们一直过着勉强糊口的日子。

They lived from hand to mouth.

他们吃了上顿没下顿。

They live from hand to mouth.

他们过着糊口的生活。

He lives from hand to mouth .

他仅能糊口度日。