eke out

基本解釋

Most city refugees must eke out an existence in illegal or informal sectors of the economy.
很多生活在城市中的難民依靠非法或非正槼的行業(yè)維持生計。
Garbage collection can be used to help eke out even more memory from your system and help improve the performance in workloads with a range of applications being used concurrently.
垃圾收集有助於從系統(tǒng)中擠出更多內(nèi)存，有助於提高包含儅前正在使用的應(yīng)用程序的工作負載的性能。
The government wants to speed up planning processes for areas like this, aiming to expand the housing stock and eke out more space for business development in the crowded south-east.
政府想加快像邱明頓格林村這樣地區(qū)的計劃進程，旨在增加住宅存量，竝竭力爲擁擠的東南部商業(yè)發(fā)展畱出餘地。

Compaq, using Dell-inspired quick inventory turns, still manages to eke out a profit in PCs.
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If they are lucky, they eke out gross profit margins between 20% and 30%.
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But occasionally, AMD would eke out a sustained victory because of a youthful injection of creativity.
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If you eke out something, for example, a victory, you obtain it with difficulty.