“ i work and i manage to pay bills , but nothing more , ” mr 桑塔马利亚说:我工作,只勉强够付帐单,其他一概免谈。
The office is minute , with barely room for a desk and two chairs 那间办公室极小,空间勉强够摆一张写字台和两把椅子。
He was a month s rent behind on the typewriter , which he could not pay , having barely enough for the week s board which was due and for the employment office fees 他已有一个月没交打字机租金,因为交不出。他的钱只勉强够这一周已到期的膳宿费和职业介绍所的手续费。
Although a majority of rural residents depend on subsistence levels of farming for the majority of their food , an increasing number of farmers are beginning to develop plans to deal with marketable surpluses 尽管大部分农村居民的农产品勉强够维持生计,现在越来越多的农民开始制定计划,把剩余产品卖到市场上去。
勉强: manage with an effort; do wi ...够: enough; sufficient; adequate勉强够的: bare; scant勉强够维持生活: scrape a living我踮起脚才勉强够着电钮: by standing on tip toe i managed to reach the button. be up to勉强: 1.(尽力) manage with an effort; do with difficulty 勉强站起来 manage to stand up2.(不心甘情愿) reluctantly; grudgingly 勉强地笑了笑 force a smile; 毫不勉强地同意 agree without reluctance3.(强迫) force sb. to do sth.: 发展关系不能勉强。 development of relations can't be pressed forcibly. 要是她不答应, 不要勉强她。 if she doesn't agree, don't try to force her to.4.(牵强) inadequate; unconvincing; strained; farfetched 你的理由很勉强。the reason you give is rather unconvincing. 他举的例证有些勉强。 he just cited a farfetched illustration.5.(刚刚够) barely enough 勉强的多数 bare majority; 勉强糊口 make out a living; 他勉强赶上火车。he barely caught the train不勉强: unstrained侥幸;勉强: by the skin of one's teeth; by the skin of one's teeth仅仅,勉强: barely勉强; 自制: constrain oneself勉强的: grudgingloth; loath; passable; reluctant; tardy; unnatural勉强地: constrainedly; limpingly; loathly; narrowly; reluctantly; with a bad grace; with reluctance勉强法: president books勉强会: ibss; itc1w; sjcd勉强是: hardly不必勉强: bbmq不勉强的: unforced; unstrained不愿勉强的: relucatant擦过,勉强通过: scrape through过得去,(勉强)过活: get around/round; get away; get by过于勉强: strain 1挤过, 勉强通过: squeeze through几乎不,勉强: scarcely仅仅勉强地: he narrowly escaped drowning咳出, 勉强说出: cough up