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Chinese translation for "朝不保夕"

[ zhāobùbǎoxì ] 
hang by a thread; anything may happen any time.; be not worth a day's purchase; be in a precarious state -- in imminent danger of death; cannot keep the wolf from the door; live in constant fear for one's livelihood; live from hand to mouth; not to know at dawn what may happen by dusk; not to know in the morning what may happen in the evening; may collapse any day; may fall any moment 短语和例子


Related Translations:
病人已朝不保夕:  the patient's condition is critical
过着朝不保夕的生活:  make a precarious living
那时候我们总是过着朝不保夕的生活:  we always lived from hand to mouth in those days
Example Sentences:
1.He holds his life on a precarious tenure .
他过着朝不保夕的生活。
2.The patient 's condition is critical .
病人已朝不保夕
3.We always lived from hand to mouth in those days .
那时候,我们总是过着朝不保夕的生活。
4.She felt the insecurity of her tenure of her brother's hospitality .
她感到,她在她弟弟府上的居留权已朝不保夕
5.And the steamboats, though their reign was longer, were ephemeral craft .
汽船的时代虽然比较长些,还是一种朝不保夕的工具。
6.The slovaks, who had been used as a pawn by germany, obtained a precarious autonomy .
曾被德国用来做棋盘上的卒子的斯洛伐克人,获得了朝不保夕的自治。
7.Did he gain his precarious bread by some petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft ?
他究竟是在做小生意,当奴仆,还是靠打家劫舍来获得朝不保夕的口粮呢?
8.He succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her tenure had become so insecure .
他好不容易将她匆匆带回住处,在那里她的栖宿已经是朝不保夕了。
9.Families with old people began to wonder when the ancient fathers and mothers would die, and babies whined .
有老人的人家看着年迈的父母朝不保夕,婴儿幼童发出有气无力的哭声。
10.The family lived a precarious existence
这家人过着朝不保夕的生活。
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