高中英语常用词组 make ends meet
释义:
make ends meet 收支相抵;量入为出
例句:
Many families struggle to make ends meet.
许多家庭只能勉强维持生计。
They can barely make ends meet because their retirement income has vanished with the stock market.
他们几乎不能做到收支相抵,因为他们的退休收入伴随着股市一起蒸发掉了。
Deposits have been flowing out of the system, in part because Greeks are running down their savings to make ends meet.
其金融系统已流失了大量的存款,部分是因为希腊政府削减存款,量入为出。
If so you are much better placed than people who are burdened with excessive debts and who struggle to make ends meet.
如果你比那些负担沉重债务和努力使收支相抵的人处于一个更好的位置。
But then a new study has revealed the wealthy are unlikely to be bothered about those who are struggling to make ends meet.
但一项新研究揭示,富人们一般也不会关心那些辛辛苦苦地量入为出的穷人。
Cocktail waitressing seemed like a good way to make ends meet.
所以鸡尾酒服务员这份工作看起来就像是一种很好的量入为出的方法。
Even those with undergraduate and graduate degrees are not immune-many end up without jobs or with low paying ones that have nothing to do with their studies just to make ends meet.
即便是那些拥有学士与硕士学位的人也不能幸免,许多人毕业即失业,还有很多人拿着微薄的薪水,做着与自身专业无关的工作,仅仅为了满足温饱。
Later, her sister, a teacher in Poland, helped her to make ends meet.
后来,在波兰当老师的姐姐要接济她一些钱才行。