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eke

/eek/US // ik //UK // (iːk) //

诶,诶呀,诶呀呀

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    eked, ek·ing.

    • : to increase; enlarge; lengthen.
  1. 1
    • : eke out, to make or support laboriously: They managed to eke out a living by farming a small piece of land.to supplement; add to; stretch: to eke out an income with odd jobs.

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Examples

  • Campbell’s office brought hotel union leaders and a vacation rental platform that undermined past regulatory attempts to the table to try to eke out a compromise.

  • Perhaps if Nautiluses and Allonautiluses only had to survive the warming depths, they would do as they have always done—eke by.

  • She didn’t qualify in the 200, and in the 400 m in Rio, Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas eked a win over Felix by diving across the finish line.

  • I eked by in the rest of my classes, often skipping weeks of lectures just to avoid getting called on by professors.

  • The difference will be in how much scale Carrefour can eke from each growth stream as it tries to cement its version of a self-serve retail network media — Carrefour Links — in the minds of marketers.

  • The polls say Republicans will likely eke out a small majority in the Senate this Election Day.

  • They made the playoffs just four times and managed to eke out only one playoff series win.

  • It's hard to find an extra 18,000 votes by squinting hard, but you can probably eke out a few hundred.

  • Thanks to an unexpectedly strong showing in the West and the farm belt, Truman managed to eke out re-election.

  • Polls suggests he should be able to eke out a win of three points or so.

  • She had no ambition whatever, and merely hoped to be able to eke out in this way her slender resources.

  • John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown; A train-band captain eke was he, of famous London town.

  • So stooping down, as needs he must who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, and eke with all his might.

  • These you can eke out by working late into the night, and rising when the day dawns.

  • Should he chance to break a leg, or she a limb, the inevitable exposure of the pedal condition is alarming and eke humiliating.