| 1. | My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands .
父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。 |
| 2. | For the last year, he has been struggling to make it on half that much in food stamps and welfare grants .
而去年，他就靠领取这个金额一半的食品卷和福利救济金勉强维持着。 |
| 3. | She is able to rub along by give english lessons
她靠教英文勉强维持生活。 |
| 4. | We had barely enough money to last through the weekend
我们的钱只能勉强维持到周末。 |
| 5. | He scraped a living ( by ) selling old clothes
他靠卖旧衣服勉强维持生活。 |
| 6. | The supplies of food were scarcely enough to maintain life
食品的供应仅够勉强维持生命。 |
| 7. | He has barely enough money to live on
他的钱仅够勉强维持生计。 |
| 8. | The battle to keep body and soul together was long and difficult
经过长期艰苦奋斗才勉强维持生活。 |
| 9. | She spent three years at college , scraping along on an allowance from her parents
她念了3年大学,靠她父母给她的津贴勉强维持生活。 |
| 10. | The whole village had to subsist on corn meal and a little milk supplied by the relied organizations
整村人都只能靠一点玉米饭和救济组织发放的一点牛奶来勉强维持生活。 |
