make ends meet

释义

1. 牛津电影里 100%

   使收支相抵；勉强维持生计

   to earn just enough money to be able to buy the things you need

   With both parents working to make ends meet...

   I don't know how we're gonna make it on that paycheck he's talking about, and he got you serving drinks at his party just to make ends meet.

电影里这样说 · 3 部

• Hear that? He's trying to make ends meet...American History X1998
• I don't know how we're gonna make it on that paycheck he's talking about, and he got you serving drinks at his party just to make ends meet.Something the Lord Made2004
• With both parents working to make ends meet...Take the Money and Run1969
• Just trying to make ends meet,Shutter Island2010
• Mom was pulling in tricks to make ends meet.Not Another Teen Movie2001
• It's the number of times we zero out our bank account each year to make ends meet.Cheaper by the Dozen2003
• We all live and train upstairs and run a club downstairs to make ends meet.Step Up 3D2010
• I just didn't think I would end up a single mom, struggling to make ends meet.A Simple Favor2018

在完整场景里学

• 美国X档案1998
  • 逼学生写哥哥的论文：here's the drill（规矩是这样的）
  • 简报会上放仇恨录像：pin something on someone（栽赃）
  • 球场上打赌抢地盘：make ends meet（勉强维持生计）

同一词条的短语

• at the end of the day
• a bad end
• be at the end of
• be at the end of your tether
• be the end
• an end in itself
• the end justifies the means
• the end of the line
• end of story
• end to end
• get your end away
• go to the ends of the earth

习语频道里接下来

• nine to five
• turn over a new leaf
• how about
• feel sick to your stomach
• run in the family
• get straight
• in place
• in vain
• in public
• and things
• it will cost you
• any day