糊口

The catch is that you work for your supper, and the food and accommodation can be very basic.

圈套在于你是在挣钱糊口,但食宿其实有可能非常简单.

I hate my job, but I have to keep body and soul together somehow.

我讨厌我的工作, 但不管怎么样我得挣钱糊口.

He earned a bare living by his hard work.

他辛辛苦苦地工作仅够糊口.

They were hard times and his parents had been struggling to raise their family.

那是段艰苦时期，他父母一直艰辛地养家糊口。

During the depression of the 1920 s and 1930 s many men found it almost impossible to keep the wolf from the door.

本世纪二三十年代大萧条时期,许多人无法养家糊口.

Were it not for this misfortune, he might never have been forced into the business of grinding out novels to support his family.

要不是因为这一不幸变故，他可能永远都不会迫于无奈地开始流水线式创作小说养家糊口。

Most of the population lives at subsistence level.

大多数人过着勉强糊口的生活.

She stretched herself to provide for the family.

她竭尽全力养家糊口.

Their chief preoccupation was how to feed their families.

他们关注的首要事情是如何养家糊口.

It wasn't easy scratching out a living in those hard times.

在那段艰难的日子里,糊口真不容易.

Her disability made taking care of the home and raising a family doubly difficult.

她的残障为她养家糊口又增添了一种困难.

I was still working on and off as a waitress to support myself.

我为了糊口仍然间或去做服务员。

Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living".

路易斯·阿姆斯特朗把爵士乐简明扼要地定义为“我一门糊口的手艺”。

He ekes out a living with a market stall.

他靠摆摊勉强糊口。

He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.

他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口.