贰靶汉英词典

hand to mouth

H 开头单词

基本解释

  • 现挣现吃地；仅够糊口地

英汉例句

    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

词组短语

    短语

  • hand to mouth pay 温饱工资
  • live hand to mouth 赚得刚够糊口
  • from hand to mouth 仅能糊口地;勉强糊口;足够糊口的;现挣现吃地
  • hand to mouth reaction 手口反应
  • living hand to mouth 上顿不接下顿

专业释义

    艺术学

  • 现挣现吃地；仅够糊口地