橘子朗文词典

from hand to mouth

F 开头单词

基本解释

  • adv. 仅能糊口地

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • In early days, many people live from hand to mouth.
    在早年，许多人都是过着勉强糊口的日子。
  • The government is running the economy from hand to mouth.
    现任政府正在管理着衣食住行各方的经济生活。
  • When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.
    去年冬天没找到工作，我不得不过着勉强糊口的生活。

    • 原声例句

  • This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth.
  • Some even live from hand to mouth.

    • 权威例句

  • Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.
    ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie
  • The driver sprang from behind the wheel and, pressing the palm of his hand to the woman's mouth, half carried, half dragged her back to the car and folded her body into the back seat.
    NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

词组短语

    短语

  • living from hand to mouth 忧柴忧米;朝不虑夕
  • lives from hand to mouth 仅能糊口
  • lived from hand to mouth 糊口度日
  • live from hand to mouth 勉强糊口;勉强度日;收入勉强糊口;紧能满足眼前的需要