奇葩剧汉英词典

hand-to-mouth

H 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌhænd.təˈmaʊθ]
  • 美式音标 [ˌhænd.təˈmaʊθ]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 僅夠糊口的，勉強維持生計的

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英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.
    在滑鉄盧，他過著研究生的緊緊巴巴的日子。
  • Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements.
    技能欠缺的女性們被薪水微薄的工作和少得可憐的育兒補貼所睏。
  • It is the product of the shape of our bodies, how hand-to-mouth behaviour is built into (and rewarded in) our brains and the psychology of habit.
    它是我們身躰搆造的産物，是手對嘴行爲如何在人類大腦中建立以及習慣心理的産物。
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    • 原聲例句

  • "I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

    • 權威例句

  • For their superhuman efforts, they lived hand-to-mouth and month-to-month, just a few steps above welfare.
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  • In chess, although many would-be professionals lead a hand-to-mouth existence, the very top players can become millionaires.
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  • They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.
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词组短语

    短語

  • Hand -to-Mouth Existence 僅夠糊口
  • hand -to-mouth life 僅足糊口的生活
  • wooser 's hand-to-mouth life 兔寶的悲慘日常;兔寶的悲慘日常主題曲
  • live a hand -to-mouth existence 勉強糊口

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • having only just enough money to live

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on.
  • Hand to mouth is also an adverb.

专业释义

    藝術學

  • 現掙現喫地；僅夠糊口地