勉强度日

Their wages are barely enough to keep the wolf from the door.

他们的工资仅够勉强度日。

Taylor, who ekes out a living selling silver on eBay, says that until the discoveries of Helios and Hyperion got media attention, his parents were "horrified" hewanted to rank redwoods instead of make money.

Taylor通过在eBay上出售银器勉强维持度日，他说在发现赫利俄斯和许珀里翁而受到媒体关注前，他父母得知他不想挣钱而要给红杉排名都&吓坏了&

As for Ms. Koh, she now teaches English to middle- and high-school students on weekends and most weeknights to make ends meet.

Koh的情况是，她现在周末和大部分晚上都教初、高中生英语，还能勉强度日。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。