eke
/i:k/
📖 中文释义
- vt. 补充, 增加
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
第三人称单数 ekes
💬 双语例句
During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.
发生旱灾的时候,农民很难维持生计。
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- v. t. To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used
- with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a
- laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply
- of one kind with some other.
- adv. In addition; also; likewise.
- n. An addition.