hand-to-mouth 双语例句
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1·Grace Mbakwa, her husband and eight children once lived hand-to-mouth in Cameroon.
格蕾丝·姆巴夸曾与丈夫和八个孩子一起在喀麦隆勉强糊口。
2·In Waterloo, li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.
在滑铁卢,他过着研究生的紧紧巴巴的日子。
3·His family is hand-to-mouth, so we took it on ourselves, Choudhury said.
“他的家庭是手到嘴,所以我们自己,”乔杜里说。
4·Here are the facts: Single mom, precocious child, hand-to-mouth business, imminent poverty, virtual homelessness.
事实真相是:单亲妈妈,早熟的孩子,仅足糊口的生意,迫在眉睫的贫穷,实质上的无家可归。
5·It is the product of the shape of our bodies, how hand-to-mouth behaviour is built into (and rewarded in) our brains and the psychology of habit.
它是我们身体构造的产物,是手对嘴行为如何在人类大脑中建立以及习惯心理的产物。
6·In some ways this is nothing new. Arts organisations have often lived hand-to-mouth and have long had to become more business-savvy to guarantee their survival.
从某些方面来说,这一点也不新鲜。艺术组织经常只能勉强维持,长期以来,它们不得不变得更有商业头脑,以保证自己的生存。
7·He told us how he had been asking God for just the right wife, because he thought he could see a way for the next generation to escape the hand-to-mouth existence of the tenant farmer.
他告诉我们他如何一直祈求上帝赐给他一个理想的妻子,因为他认为他看得见一种办法,可让下一代摆脱伯农只能勉强维持生计的命运。
8·She gasped and her hand flew to her mouth.
她倒抽了一口气,连忙用手掩着嘴。《牛津词典》
9·His hand moved to his mouth as he tried to damp down the panic.
他用手捂住了嘴,试图使惊恐的情绪平静下来。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
10·I just can't live hand to mouth, it's too frightening.
我就是不能过勉强糊口的日子,这太可怕了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
