eke out a meager existence try to prolong ones exhausted panting
苟延残喘

They scraped out a meager existence from the small plot of land.
他们靠一小块土地过着贫穷的生活。

I worked long hours on meager food, in cold cellar, by dim lamps.
我吃简陋的饮食，住寒冷的地窖，靠微弱的灯光，长时间也工作。

Aside from his meager savings, he has no resources to fall back on.
除了极少量的积蓄外，他没有可以依赖的财源。

I dare to presume my own meager contributions will be rewarded one day.
我想我也有一天能得到奖赏吧。

On strategies of Chinese beverage enterprises in times of meager profits
论我国饮料企业在微利时代的选择

Design and practice of extension project of underground meager profit mines
微利地下矿山延深工程的设计与实施

and a memory trace of a sense datum is too meager an affair to do much good.
但对感觉材料的记忆痕迹是太微弱了，并没有什么用处。

Kingship over human beings is a meager thing when compared with heavenly bliss.
人间的帝位，较之天界的喜乐，实在微不足道。

How was it possible to maintain so comfortable a life with such meager resources ?
入项菲薄, 怎供得起大家这么称意的生活?

He related how on several occasions he was robbed of his meager possessions and beaten.
他讲述他怎么好几次被人抢走他贫乏的财产和被打。

Second, in the face of meager profit era, Taiwan's IC foundry how about sets more profits.
面对微利时代，台湾晶圆代工产业如何创造更多的利润。

Investigation into Thermal Efficiency of Boiler Burning Bituminous Coal Instead of Meager Coal
锅炉燃烧由贫煤改烟煤的热效率分析

her sympathetic heart ached to add some delicacy to his meager purchase, but her courage failed.
她那颗善良的心真想给那可怜的人加些美味食品，但她还是没有勇气。

He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons Braque eked out his collages with charcoal.
他通过做家教来补充他的不高的工资布拉克用。

The whole family only depends on grandfather the meager retirement pension to maintain the livelihood.
全家人仅靠爷爷微薄的退休金来维持生活。

Delivers punctually, the quality guaranteed, the price is inexpensive, meager profit but high turnover.
交货准时，质量保证，价格低廉，薄利多销。

With the assistance of several meager advances from the bookseller who was to bring it out, he succeeded.
书商给他预支了几笔数目不大的酬金，帮助他取得了成功。

My Meager Opinion on the Origins of the Public Relations in Crisis of Police and its Disposal Countermeasures
刍议警察危机公关的产生根源和应对之策

Acting on the hunch, I dumped my meager life savings about 9, 000 into the rareearths sector, and waited for the payoff.
于是凭直觉, 我用我可怜的积蓄买了稀土股, 等待回报。