hand to mouth

常见例句

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。
• 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。
• So those living hand to mouth do indeed work for food, but unhappily just not nutritious food.
  所以，那些人确实是为了食物而工作，只是不幸的是没有营养的食物。

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.
• "I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

权威例句

• Twentysomethings spend their days rearing children, living hand to mouth in Asia, and working sixty-hour weeks on Wall Street.
  NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life
• Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.
  ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie
• Exploration and production companies often run deficits and live hand to mouth trying to raise funds to do more exploration.
  FORBES: Magazine Article
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