make ends meet

Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet.

我很难相信一个年轻人每周必须工作六十或七十个小时才能勉强维持生计。

"I figured if I could even make a fraction of that, we'd be able to make ends meet, " he said.

他称：“我在想，自己是否也能够赚到那个人的一小部分，这样我就能维持收支平衡了。”

I am still trying to get on stable financial ground, but compared to a year ago, when I couldn't make ends meet, I am light years ahead.

我一直致力于获得一个稳定的财政基础，但是相比一年前，我仅能保证不会入不敷出，今年我已经轻松很多。

Mom, I wish to tell you that if there is a lot better, let me make ends meet in the coming slowly to talk to you now!

妈妈，我想对你说的话还有好多好多，就让我在今后的糊口中慢慢来对你倾诉吧！

You know, I'm trying to save money to buy a car. I also have to support a family. So I'm busy trying to make ends meet.

你知道，我要攒钱买车，又要养家糊口，所以我正忙着收支平衡。

She did not attend school. She had to work in order to help her parents make ends meet.

她也不能去上学，应该帮忙父母做工作，不然的话不够钱用。

As many students struggle to make ends meet, finding a rich man to help them pay their way can seem like a very comfortable option.

很多大学生为了维持生活和学业，找富有的男人帮他们付钱，她们似乎把此举看作寻求舒适的选择。

To try to make ends meet, he and his wife just sold their house and are moving into their son's basement.

为了收支相抵，他和妻子只好卖掉了房子，搬到儿子的地下室里住。

Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die.

试着使收支平衡，你成为金钱的奴隶直到死去。

If after trying to renegotiate your debt you find you still can't make ends meet , it could be time to reconsider a consolidation loan .

如果您债务后试图重新找到你，你仍然无法糊口，时间可以重新整理贷款。

The son of a poor farmer's widow, he had seen his mother put to such straits to make ends meet.

他是个穷苦农民寡妇的儿子，曾经亲眼看到他母亲在万分艰困的情况下度日。

Our former church gave it to my family, knowing I'm a single parent trying to make ends meet.

我们的前教会知道我是一个入不敷出的单亲家长就把这份礼券送给了我们全家。

Same for me. I'm going to have a baby, so I do translation work as a part-time job. I'm trying to make ends meet too.

我也一样，也要养一个小孩，所以兼职做点翻译，以使收支平衡。

A library with a bundled subscription deal cannot make ends meet by dropping a few journals, as it could in the old days.

从前图书馆可以通过减少一部分期刊来达到收支平衡，但是在进行捆绑订阅交易的年代这种做法却行不通了。

Got to do some carpentry, fishing, digging for clams and picking blueberries to make ends meet.

为了达到收支平衡，你得会做木匠，捕鱼，挖蛤和摘蓝莓（越橘的一种）。

The money that Frank makes is more than enough to make ends meet, but he and April hate the monotony of their lives.

法兰克赚的钱足以让一家四口衣食无缺，但他和爱波却厌倦单调的生活。

A family struggling to make ends meet in an American inner city matters as much as a family thriving in a safe, suburban neighborhood.

美国大城市贫民区里为收支平衡努力奋斗的家庭与城郊住宅区中安全富裕的家庭同样重要。

The rapid rise in the cost of living has fuelled labour unrest, with factory workers striking for higher wages to help them make ends meet.

居住成本的迅速上升加剧了劳动者的不安。许多工厂工人罢工，要求增加工资，以帮助自己实现收支相抵。

As a documentary filmmaker, he thinks like an indigenous tribesperson struggling to make ends meet.

而作为一名纪录片导演，他像一个努力想要达到收支平衡的土著。

Yes, that's true. I'm going to sell my car. I'm trying to make ends meet.

是啊，为了买房我将卖掉自己的小车，以使收支平衡。